The book describes about 50 of his works and includes essays by the leading expert judges as well as personal testimonies of the artist's previously unpublished letters and an interview with Gerhard Richter Uwe M. Schneede, the curator of the exhibition. The book provides a fresh look at the complexity of the visual world judge, meeting place of the banal and the evil: the dreams and longings of the time, like the fast cars and the new travel, personal memories, the oppressive past, the current Politics and the trivial, nevertheless evocative objects used in everyday life.
To understand the memory quality of the images from the '60s, the cycle is »18 October 1977 "(1988) to the death of RAF members of central importance. With the intense preoccupation with this event includes judges from the work group of paintings from photographs. The cycle, which comes as a loan from the New York MoMA for the exhibition in the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg learns a new interpretation and localization in Richter's paintings.