POLKE Sigmar
(Oels 1941 - Colonia 2010)
Bundestagswahl 1972 - Bizarre Fotos aufgenommen in Düsseldorf und Köln
Luogo: Heidelberg
Editore: Edition Staeck
Stampatore: N. D.
Anno: N. D.
Legatura: brossura
Dimensioni: 20,5x29,8 cm.
Pagine: pp. (90)
Descrizione: libro d'artista con copertine in acetato trasparente, illustrato con 44 immagini fotografiche in bianco e nero a piena pagina di cartelli elettorali, scattate da Sigmar Polke a Cologna e Düsseldorf durante le elezioni del 1972 in Germania. Tiratura di 500 esemplari. Edizione originale
Bibliografia: N. D.
Prezzo: € 1200ORDINA / ORDER
"All have the same subject matter: party posters in public space that have been overpainted, torn, pasted over and otherwise 'modified'. The series is completed by a frontispiece that reproduces the cover of an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, 'An Evenong with Wild Man Fischer'. The book ends with a TV screen shot of a woman being hugged by a chimpanzee: a comic transformation of the embrace on the album cover between an old lady and the eponymous, swivel-eyed Wild Man Fischer. The word 'Bizarre', added to the title, is also adapted from the album label and serves to indicate the contents of the book. The posters have been bizarrely defaced: all the members of opposition leader Rainer Barzel's shadow cabinet have been given Hitler haircuts and moustaches: the CDU politician Professor Paul Mikat appears to have a meringue flattened on his face; the slogan 'We Build Progress on Stability' has been rounded off with the additional message'+ Imbecility' ". [Ref. Becker & Osten - Sigmar Polke. The Editioned Works 1963-2000 Catalogue Raisonné, no. 19].
