| Sigmar Polke: Windows for the Zürich Grossmünster Contributor(s): Polke, Sigmar, Warner, Marina (Text by (Art, Photo Books)), Boehm, Gottfried (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 3907582276 ISBN-13: 9783907582275 Publisher: Parkett Verlag OUR PRICE: $58.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.8" W x 11.9" (2.85 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows for the Grossm nster cathedral in Z rich, 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. |