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Gutes Ex.; der farb. Einband stw. geringf�gig berieben; mit Aufkleber. - Englisch. - . Consistent with an important purpose of the Critical Forum series, it identifies aspects of Polke's work about which there is reasonable consensus besides those which stimulate profound disagreement, on the part of historians and critics who approach him from aesthetic, philosophical and socio-cultural standpoints. Some contributors ground Polke in Neo-Dada's great enterprise to reclaim contact with the historic German avant-garde, and see him as having strategically confused representation and abstraction� identified as these idioms were with Cold War factions competing to subsume German (and European) cultural identity. Others regard him as an exponent of German Pop, reflecting not on conspicuous consumption in a plentiful economy (like American counterparts) so much as on 'ordinary' consumption in the subsistence economy which characterised Europe, and especially the two Germanies, during the long period of post-war recovery. Yet others argue that Polke is a Modernist who has missed the crucial moment when practising in an exclusively modernist idiom would have been significant, and see him as compulsively revisiting Pop, Op, Conceptualism, New Figuration and Post Painterly Abstraction. And still others regard this aspect of his work as indicating that significance today resides in synthetic achievement, and that Polke is thus a highly exemplary Postmodernist and perhaps also one of the most indicative of a truly European avant-garde culture during a time when American critiques and values have tended to dominate art historical thinking. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : CONTENTS ---- Introduction DAVID THISTLEWOOD ---- Sigmar Polke and the Critical Problem of Multiple 'Signature Styles' ---- DAVID CAMPBELL Plotting Polke ---- JOSEPH E. McHUGH ---- Connecting the Dots: Sigmar Polke's ---- Rasterbilder in their Sociopolitical Context ---- MARTIN HENTSCHEL ---- Plotting Polke's Showcase Piece: ---- Irony and Parody as Vehicles of ---- Criticism and Artistic Freedom ---- FIONA ELLIOTT Sigmar Polke and Romanticism ---- GERLINDE GABRIEL Sigmar Polke's Paganini ---- DONALD KUSPIT ---- At the Tomb of the Unknown Picture: ---- Sigmar Polke's Art ---- KEVIN POWER Polke's Postmodern Play ---- ROY HOLT ---- Polke's Work: Verbs Posing as Nouns ---- ANDREW BENJAMIN Polke at the End of Painting ---- BICE CURIGER ---- On Sigmar Polke's Photo-Piece Paris 1911 ---- ANNE MacPHEE Sigmar Polke: A Selected Bibliography ---- Index. ISBN 0853239118