$89.27
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2009
Summary
Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire’s famous description of one of his contemporaries as ‘a painter of modern life’ to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and ‘constructed’ social situations.
Wall is foremost among the pioneering artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780714855974 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0714855979 |
| Author: | Arielle Pelenc, Boris Groys, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Thierry de Duve |
| Publisher: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Phaidon Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Edition: | Complete ed |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 2.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 290mm x 250mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘prove[s] beyond doubt that photography can coalesce as much narrative and emotion as any brushwork on canvas.’ Lucy Davies, Daily Telegraph, 28 November 2009 ‘offers tremendous insight into what makes [Wall’s] work so appealing, so different … Accompanied by a number of illuminating interviews and authoritative texts, this impressive volume offers the most comprehensive survey of Wall’s influential career to date. Wall has made a particular photography domain his own and on his territory there is nobody to touch him.’ 1000 Words, March 2010
About The Author
Arielle Pelenc
Thierry de Duve has written extensively on modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on the work of Marcel Duchamp and its legacy. A regular contributor to the journal October, he is editor of The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (1991) and the author of Kant after Duchamp (1995). He has taught in the US and France, and lives and works between Belgium and France.
Jean-François Chevrier is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He has curated numerous exhibitions including: ‘Another Objectivity’ (with James Lingwood) (1989), ‘Photokunst’ (1989), ‘Walker Evans and Dan Graham’ (1992-1994) and ‘Oyvind Fahlstrom’, Barcelona (2001). He was also Curatorial Consultant for Documenta X in 1997.
Arielle Pelenc is an art critic and curator who lives and works in France. She has written for Artefactum, Art Press, Parkett and Arts Magazine.
Boris Groys was born in East Berlin and studied at Leningrad University. He emigrated to West Germany in 1981 and continues to work in Germany as a freelance author and critic. He has held senior academic posts at universities in Germany, Russia and the United Sates. He has been a contributor to Art in America and his books include The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship and Beyond (1992).
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