Jeff Wall. The complete edition. Ediz. illustrata [Lingua inglese] - Rilegato

Thierry De Duve; Arielle Pelenc; Boris Groys; Jean-François Chevrier; Mark Lewis

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ISBN 10: 0714855979 ISBN 13: 9780714855974

Casa editrice: Phaidon, 2009

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Questa monografia fondamentale rappresenta l'opera di riferimento più completa e aggiornata dedicata a Jeff Wall (nato nel 1946), l'artista che, a partire dagli anni '70, ha fatto della fotografia una delle grandi protagoniste dell'arte contemporanea. Le immagini del fotografo, realizzate grazie alle tecnologie più avanzate, rievocano soggetti di grande impatto scenico che ricordano le suggestioni del cinema hollywoodiano e il realismo dei dipinti del XIX secolo. Questa retrospettiva completa della carriera di Wall è arricchita da quattro saggi di importanti storici dell'arte, da interviste e scritti del fotografo, nonché da riproduzioni a colori di tutte le sue opere.

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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.

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Book by De Duve Thierry Pelenc Arielle Groys Boris Chevrie

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• Editore: Phaidon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0714855979
• ISBN 13: 9780714855974
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 278