A lavishly illustrated monograph that spans the entire career of one of the most celebrated contemporary artists Over the course of his acclaimed 60year career Gerhard Richter b. 1932 has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy collective memory and national sensibility of postSecond World War Germany in both broad and very personal terms. This handsomely designed book features approximately 100 of his key canvases from photo paintings created in th