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By
Ulrich Gerster,
Gottfried Boehm,
Jacqueline Burckhardt,
Bice Curiger and
Sigmar Polke ( (other contributor))
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Parkett Pub
Publication date
November 30, 2010
Pages
205
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Bilingual
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9783907582275
ISBN-10
3907582276
Dimensions
0.75 by 8.50 by 11.75 in.
Weight
2.80 lbs.
Published in
Europe
Original list price
$65.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows for the Grossmünster cathedral in Zürich, setting new standards for the mutual relationship between art and church. One group of seven Romanesque windows shows luminous mosaics of thinly sliced agate, some of it artificially colored, to produce pulsating blocks of back-lit color. Says Marina Warner, "The interior of rocks opens not only on unexpected colors... on once imprisoned now scintillating rays and gleams, but it also tunnels into the past, into the distant past of geological and cosmological millennia." For the remaining five windows, Polke designed images of figures from the Old Testament, based on medieval illuminations, which have themselves undergone transformation in the course of their long journey through time. Polke's figures now appear as radiantly contemporary icons created in colored glass, using a variety of traditional and customized techniques devised especially for this project.
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Hardcover
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Bilingual edition from Parkett Pub (November 30, 2010)
9783907582275 | details & prices | 205 pages | 8.50 × 11.75 × 0.75 in. | 2.80 lbs | List price $65.00
About: Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows for the Grossmünster cathedral in Zürich, setting new standards for the mutual relationship between art and church.
About: Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows for the Grossmünster cathedral in Zürich, setting new standards for the mutual relationship between art and church.
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