Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper

by Bice Curiger, Sigmar Polke, Margit Rowell

Book Overview

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively in Dusseldorf around 1963. His earliest work was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics and classic artistic conventions. Few of Polke's works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit and eclectic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870700839
• ISBN13: 9780870700835
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.5"