Jan Dibbets: the photographic work (Lieven Gevaert Series (18)) - Softcover

Verhagen, Erik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9058679918 ISBN 13: 9789058679918

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The first monograph covering Dibbets’s iconic photographic oeuvre. Dutchman Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) is one of the principal artists to have introduced photography into the plastic arts, and this as early as the 1960s. At a time when photography has massively invaded contemporary art institutions – not without generating confusion and excess – it is not easy to evaluate the full radicality of Dibbets’s approach. This radicalism has nothing to do with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further than others; rather, he simply went elsewhere. Beginning in 1967, he embarked on a long-range project which, as we advance into the 21st century, he seems not to have abandoned: the ‘pictorializing’ of photography. Jan Dibbets is one of the few artists of his generation and reputation not to have seen his oeuvre accorded full monographic coverage. This exhaustive study seeks to fill this gap by covering almost fifty years of his photographic oeuvre.

About this title

About the Author:

Erik Verhagen is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Valenciennes, in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9058679918
• ISBN 13: 9789058679918
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200