Atlas

This monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of the late twentieth century. Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist´s work, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962. The images closely parallel, year by year, the subjects of Richter´s paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis that has been so central to his art. Offering invaluable insight into Richter´s working process, this encyclopedic new edition, which completely revises and updates the rare, out-of-print 1997 edition