Loo Paper
- MAKER:
Artist
Gerhard Richter ( German, 1932 )
Editor
- DATE:
- 1994
General Description
Notorious for adopting an attitude of indifference toward his subject matter, Gerhard Richter’s Loo Paper presents an ordinary roll of toilet paper as an appropriate subject for high art.
Excerpt from
- Label text, From Düsseldorf to Dallas: Postwar German Art in the DMA Collection, 2018.
Web Resources
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Consider Loo Paper in connection with Richter's larger body of work and historical moment in this brief response to the photograph. -
Guggenheim
Find out more about Richter and his various lines of investigation. -
Dallas Museum of Art
Review the 2018 exhibition _From Düsseldorf to Dallas: Postwar German Art in the DMA Collection. _