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I blur to make everything equal, everything equally important and equally unimportant

In the early 1960s, Richter began experimenting with painting directly from photographs from both mass media and his own family archive. These paintings are gray-toned transpositions of photographs to canvas, featuring a range of persons and everyday objects. By collapsing artist into copyist and mobilizing Duchamp’s Readymade, therein enacting the so-called “death of the author”, Richter highlights a contradiction between form and content---emotionless form and emotional content---that sought to attune postwar European audiences to the power of the image economy, and to implicate them as passive in the rise of Nazism.

The shine of youth was fading from the sky and the story. They went to bed and slept the whole night through. Waking up she wished there was some kind of moral. Some kind of marriageable age. That this was a marriageable age, that this was the screen or the opportunity, of which she should be taking the advantage. That there was always an advantage to be taken. Having lived a charmed middle-class life she was accustomed to taking the advantage but this was no friendly American suburb. It was the wild where the writer had gone to die. That there were precious few years or words to waste, that it did matter, it all did, “every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.”