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Full Title:: F. / Jutta Koether ; Institut für Kunstkritik Frankfurt am Main, Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum ; [translation, Nick Mauss, Michael Sanchez].

Additional Author/Creators:: Graw, Isabelle
Birnbaum, Daniel, 1963-
Mauss, Nick
Sanchez, Michael (Art historian and critic)
Städelschule Frankfurt am Main. Institut für Kunstkritik

Bibliography:: Includes bibliographical references.
Language:: English
German
Language Note:: Parallel texts in English and German.
Physical Type/Description:: 53, 67 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
General Note:: The German original was published 1987 by Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Graz.
First published in German in 1987, this is artist and writer Jutta Koether's meditation on painting. In novella form, f. follows several disembodied female characters as they consider velvet, coral, the curtain, money, color, red. These objects, these things, help the narrator and other characters come into being, but it is paintings that embody who the narrator really is: "Even if I'm their hostage when I look at them, I'm not inferior to them. I lie down, stand, or sit in front of them and, in this moment, I'm everything they affect in me." Unlike people, paintings are fixed, explicit with their intentions and challenges - in the end they will still be here, outlasting those who made them or who looked at them. A facsimile of the original German publication is included in this volume.