Research Catalog

Title

Dispatches from moments of calm : 89 stories, 64 pictures / Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Richter ; translated by Nathaniel McBride.

Author

Kluge, Alexander, 1932-

Publication

• London : Seagull Books, 2016.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
• McBride, Nathaniel

Description

167 pages : color illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue - but things looked ... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as theyre read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary. That calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control over Die Welt for that single day, taking over and imprinting all thirty pages of the newspaper with his personal stamp: images from quiet moments amid unquiet times, the demotion of politics from its primary position, the privileging of the private and personal over the public, and, above all, artful, moving contrasts between sharpness and softness. He had created an unprecedented work of mass art. Among the many people to praise the work was writer Alexander Kluge, who instantly began writing stories to accompany Richters images. This book, the second collaboration between Kluge and Richter, brings their stories and images together, along with new words and artworks created specifically for this volume. The result, Dispatches from Moments of Calm, is a beautiful, meditative interval in the otherwise unremitting press of everyday life, a masterpiece by two acclaimed artists working at the height of their powers"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

The German list

Uniform Title

• Nachricht von ruhigen Momenten. English
• German list.

Alternative Title

Nachricht von ruhigen Momenten.

Subjects

• Calmness > Pictorial works
• Artists' books > Specimens
• Calmness > Fiction

Language (note)

• Translated from the original German into English.

Call Number

JQE 16-748

ISBN

• 9780857423283
• 0857423282

OCLC

919482932

Author

Kluge, Alexander, 1932- author.

Title

Dispatches from moments of calm : 89 stories, 64 pictures / Alexander Kluge, Gerhard Richter ; translated by Nathaniel McBride.

Publisher

London : Seagull Books, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The German list

German list.

Language

Translated from the original German into English.

Added Author

Richter, Gerhard, 1932- photographer.

McBride, Nathaniel, translator.

Research Call Number

JQE 16-748