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PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 15.25 x 10.5 in. / 252 pgs / 125 color.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 137   

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ISBN 9783865604767 TRADE
List Price: $215.00 CDN $290.00

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Sigmar Polke: Axial Age Paintings

Text by Chrissie Iles.

Axial Age is the title of a series of seven paintings completed by the influential German artist Sigmar Polke between 2005 and 2007. With his camera, Polke created a fascinating photo documentary of the painting process, including 187 images specially selected by the artist to be featured in this book. Each image is reproduced as a high-quality, full-page color plate. By revealing the materiality and structural complexity of the works from a variety of perspectives and under different lighting conditions, Polke provides the reader with analogies to his oeuvre that are as explicit as they are unique. The title Axial Age is a reference to the term coined by Karl Jaspers to describe the period between 800 BC and 200 BC, during which the world was reinvented based on the principle of transcendence--a concept that finds full expression in this series of paintings. Polke makes use of a broad range of materials in his work, including varnishes and pigments, photographic chemicals, gold and silver, lapis lazuli and malachite--all references to alchemistic processes of transformation. Indeed, with these extensions of painterly techniques, the artist undermines the picture itself, for any shift in perspective or lighting is accompanied by a change in the painting's appearance.
Sigmar Polke: Axial Age Paintings

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SIGMAR POLKE MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Sigmar Polke: Starting from Willich

SIGMAR POLKE: STARTING FROM WILLICH

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783863357740
USD $39.95
| CAN $53.95

Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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Sigmar Polke: Paintings, Photographs and Films

SIGMAR POLKE: PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS

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ISBN: 9788434313378
USD $75.00
| CAN $99

Pub Date: 9/30/2014
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Sigmar Polke: Windows for the Zürich Grossmünster

SIGMAR POLKE: WINDOWS FOR THE ZüRICH GROSSMüNSTER

Parkett/Zurich Grossmunster

ISBN: 9783907582275
USD $65.00
| CAN $87

Pub Date: 11/30/2010
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Polke & Co: We Petty Bourgeois

POLKE & CO: WE PETTY BOURGEOIS

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ISBN: 9783865607881
USD $49.95
| CAN $67.5

Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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Marsilio Editori

ISBN: 9788831724074
USD $55.00
| CAN $70 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 9/13/2016
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