Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky
by Beate Sontgen, Nina Zimmer, Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky
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Author: Andreas Gursky, Beate Sontgen, Nina Zimmer
Preface: Bernhard Mendes Burgi
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-01
ISBN: 3775720197
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Book Reviews of Andreas Gursky

Book Review: Andreas Gursky
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a fairly inexpensive way to acquire one of Andreas Gursky's books. Most of his other books are fairly expensive and seem to be increasing in value. The quality of the images is excellent and the only issue I have with the book is the size of the offerings. If you have ever seen one of Gursky's images in the flesh you will quickly realize that this book only hints at what his prints really look like. But an oversized book would have been more costly and even then would not have approached the scale that Gursky prefers. All in all, I would recommend purchasing this book which is something that I have obviously done.

Summary of Andreas Gursky

Famed worldwide for his epically proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information--which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image--achieved by digital restructuring--produces a vertiginous effect on the viewer, as it oscillates between total representation and total abstraction. It could be said that Gursky updates the eighteenth-century sublime for our times.
This publication surveys the artist's most recent creations, on display at the renowned Kunstmuseum Basel throughout the winter of 2007/2008. Two new groups of works in particular, one on Formula 1 races and the other on the famous Arirang Festival (a closely choreographed mass spectacle in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang), are gathered here.

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