Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting September" is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11 2001 made some four years after the event. The eminent American critic & curator Robert Storr who has had a long working relationship with Richter explores both the painting & the event itself through a very personal account of his experience of being in New York on the day of the bombing. Storr shows through words details & comparative illustrations how this painting is part of a current running throughout Richters career that responds to traumatic & controversial events including works based on the bombing of cities in World War II & the capture of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group. It comes with a foreword by Sir Brian Urquhart."