Jeff Wall : works and collected writings / Michael Newman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Michael Newman -- Introduction: The Photograph as Picture and Prose Poem -- The Reinvigoration of the Western Tableau and the Transformation of the Photograph -- Gesture and Time -- Natural History, Life, and Death -- Transmission and Medium: The Economy of Photography -- Light, Darkness, and the World -- Jeff Wall. Writings -- Dan Graham's Kammerspiel -- Unity and Fragmentation in Manet -- Into the Forest: Two Sketches for Studies of Rodney Graham's Work -- An Outline of a Context for Stephan Balkenhol's Work -- Roy Arden: An Artist and His Models -- Monochrome and Photojournalism in On Kawara's Today Paintings -- "Marks of Indifference": Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art.

"Jeff Wall's large-scale Cibachrome transparencies mounted on light-boxes have exerted a profound influence over little short of the past three decades. His work also spans a time in which the way in which the relationship between art and history has been conceived has undergone a profound change. He is one of the last artists to work out his "moves" on the basis of a linear view of history and then to have to rethink the relationship of his work with art history in a world in which such a view of history was no longer tenable." "His compositions in both color and black-and-white maintain a constant dialogue with nineteenth-century genre painting and truly make him, in Charles Baudelaire's expression, "a painter of modern life."" "In addition to an in-depth essay by Michael Newman, this book reproduces the complete work of Jeff Wall to date and includes his main writings on the creative experience of other key contemporary artists."--BOOK JACKET.

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