Jeff Wall (Contemporary Artists Series) - Softcover

Wall, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714833495 ISBN 13: 9780714833491

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

This text examines 20 years of work by Canadian artist, Jeff Wall, whose constructed photographs of suburban landscapes and dramatic mise-en-scene explore the topography of everyday relations. He combines the scale and composition of the old masters with technology, to create huge transparencies which are exhibited on lightboxes. The book not only surveys his entire career to date, but also celebrates Wall's writings. Wall is to be the subject of surveys at MOCA, Chicago; Whitechapel, London; and Jeu de Paume, paris in 1995/1996. The book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration.

About this title

Review:

Chicago: Art Instute of Chicago, Summer 2007

San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art, Fall 2007

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2/25/07-5/14/07

About the Author:

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 Fahlström', 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0714833495
• ISBN 13: 9780714833491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Duve Thierry De, Pelenc Arielle, Groys Boris