# This Great Allegory

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- Book: [This Great Allegory](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerhard-richter/this-great-allegory) ([This Great Allegory.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerhard-richter/this-great-allegory.md))
- Authors: [Gerhard Richter](https://www.bookquiver.com/gerhard-richter)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6254-414-6
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2022-11-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard Richter explores...