New European Painting

New European Painting emerged in the 1980s and reached a critical point of major distinction and influence in the 1990s[1] with painters like Gerhard Richter,[2][3] Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Bracha L. Ettinger[4][5][6] whose paintings have established and continue to create a new dialogue between the historical archive, American Abstraction and figuration.[7] The major new European painters of this era show strong engagements with painful personal and general history, as well as shared history; its memory and its oblivion; and with life under the shadow of World War II, utilizing research in new and old materials, photography and oil painting.

  1. ^ Chris Dercon (ed.), 1980-1996 in: Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp.496-561.
  2. ^ Gerhard Richter. Atlas. D.A.P., NY, 2006.
  3. ^ Stefan Germer, "Des souvenirs inoppotuns," in: Jean-Paul Ameline, Brigitte Leal, Marc Bormand and Chris Dercon (eds.), Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp. 544-547.
  4. ^ Brian Massumi and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Drawing Papers n.24. The Drawing Center, NY, 2001
  5. ^ Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Women Artists at the Millennium. Cambridge Massachusetts: October Books, MIT Press, 2006
  6. ^ Griselda Pollock, "Rencontre avec l'histoire," in: Jean-Paul Ameline, Brigitte Leal, Marc Bormand and Chris Dercon (eds.), Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp. 535-540.
  7. ^ Pollock, Griselda, "Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in the Era of Trauma." In: EurAmerica. Vol.40 n.4: 829-886. 2010.[1]