Thomas Ruff: Tableaux Chinois

ISBN 10: 3753301760 / ISBN 13: 9783753301761

Published by Walther König, Köln, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thomas Ruff: Tableaux Chinois
• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3753301760
• ISBN 13: 9783753301761
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

A large-format, luxurious photobook exploring Thomas Ruff’s fascination with the mechanics of propaganda.

From the Back Cover

For his "Tableaux chinois" series, Thomas Ruff digitally edited Chinese propaganda images from between 1950 and 1970. The Chinese Communist Party published these images in "La Chine", a magazine distributed in various languages around the world. Now presented in a large-format photobook, Ruff's work links the original analogue offset printing grid with the digital pixel structure. In doing so, the artist transports the 20th century propaganda images into the visual language of the 21st century.