Warhol, Polke, Richter:
In the Power of Painting 1
with texts by
Dietmar Elger, Peter Fischer, Martin Hentschel, Michael Lüthy.

Zurich: Daros; Zurich/Berlin/New York: Scalo, 2001.

texts in English
and German

228 pages, 55 full page color reproductions, bound in linen, dust jacket

Warhol, Polke, Richter: In the Power of Painting 1

Doubts were repeatedly expressed in the 20th century about the contemporary significance and relevance of painting, although ultimately that genre, with all its rich traditions, was never abandoned. On the contrary: groups of works by Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter from the Daros Collection show how artistic forms of expression, examined and redefined, have become open to hitherto uncharted areas of reality.