| Jeff Wall: Complete Edition | 
| Authors: Thierry De Duve, Arielle Pelenc, Boris Groys, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Mark Lewis
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Complete ed
Pages: 272
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.2
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0714855979
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780714855974
Publication Date: February 10, 2010
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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 contemporary art. His constructed images employ the latest sophisticated technology in the creation of compelling tableaux, which are evocative of subjects ranging from Hollywood cinema to nineteenth-century history painting. When exhibited in their glowing light boxes they evoke both the seduction of the cinema screen and the physical presence of minimalist sculptures such as Dan Flavin's fluorescent light installations or Donald Judd's metal and Perspex wall reliefs. All of these elements - traditional figurative painting, cinema, Minimalism, Conceptual art, documentary photography - are consciously evoked and explored in Wall's work. Associated closely since the late 1960s with Conceptual artists such as Dan Graham, with whom he collaborated on The Children's Pavilion (1988-93), Wall has engaged at a sophisticated level with theories of representation and its social dimensions both as an artist and as a theoretical writer on contemporary art and culture. The survey by Thierry de Duve, author of "Pictorial Nominalism" and "The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp", proposes an alternative history of modernism. Critic and curator Arielle Pelenc talks with the artist on themes ranging from storytelling to cinematography. Boris Groys, author of "Contemporary Art from Moscow", focuses on the meaning of light in Wall's work. The update section by French art critic and historian of photograpy Jean-Francois Chevrier surveys Wall's work from 1995 to the present. The artist has chosen texts by Blasie Pascal and Franz Kafka for the "Artist's Choice", and the "Artist's Writings" celebrate Wall as an art historian and theorist by including key essays and important interviews.
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Pushing photography to the limits June 1, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall pushes the limits of photography and modern art. He often combines the two forming modern art. His photographs defy a simple explanation or meaning, often giving multiple meanings with each viewing of the piece. With his photographs it can be answered that photography is truly an art form. This collection brings together essays and interviews about and by Jeff Wall, along with his photographs from the beginning of his career to more recent compositions.
This book is for fans of modern art and photography. In the interviews, Mr. Wall goes in depth about his process and how he makes the photos look like paintings, explaining that they are paintings in a way. Brilliantly assembled, the editors are to be commended for putting such an opus together. This is a book for any collection.
Reviewed by Kevin Winter
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