John Caldwell and Peter Schjeldahl, et al. — Sigmar Polke

San Francico, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1990. Hardcover. grey cloth with gilt spine lettering. Color illustrated dj, black spine with gold print. 152 pp. 100 color plates. Includes Biography. Exhibition History. Selected Reviews. Bibliography. Contemporary German artist Sigmar Polke is widely considered by critics and art historians to be one of the most important European artists to emerge in the last thirty years. Yet while Polke has been the subject of major retrospectives throughout Europe, his art is not well-known or understood in this country. Much of this obscurity owes to the artist's intense aversion to attention and his reluctance to embrace too closely the art gallery system, earning him a reputation as hermetic, enigmatic, and eccentric. VG-/VG (light sunning to upper edges w/ indentation & creasing. lower board has light indentation. dustjacket has edge-wear, rubbing to corners & scuffing) .