Jeff Wall /
Peter Galassi ; exhibition organized by Peter Galassi, Neal Benezra ; interview with Jeff Wall by James Rondeau.
- 167 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Feb. 25-May 14, 2007; the Art Institute of Chicago, June 30-Sept. 23, 2007; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 27, 2007-Jan. 27, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interview -- The Mainstream and the Crooked Path -- Life without Shadows -- Pensees, 1658 (extract) -- Troubles of a Householder, 1919 -- Gestus, 1984 -- Unity and Fragmentation in Manet, 1984 -- Photography and Liquid Intelligence, 1989 -- An Outline for a Context for Stephan Balkenhol's Work, 1988 -- A Guide to the Children's Pavilion (a collaborative project with Dan Graham, extract), 1989 -- The Interiorized Academy, 1990 -- Representation, Suspicions and Critical Transparency, 1990 -- Restoration, 1994 -- About Making Landscapes, 1995 -- Chronology -- Bibliography.
"Jeff Wall's large color transparencies set forth an imposing and seductive pictorial world. Ranging from the gritty realism of the city street to bizarre flights of fantasy, his photographs have won him wide recognition as one of the most adventurous and accomplished artists of the past three decades. This book accompanies a major retrospective jointly organized in 2007 by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Between showings in New York and San Francisco, the show visits The Art Institute of Chicago." "Born in 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lives and works, Jeff Wall has charted an ambitious and unique path through the maze of contemporary art, drawing upon such diverse resources as Conceptual art, Neorealist cinema, philosophy, literature, critical theory, modernist photography, and the venerable tradition of European painting. The exhibition includes all of his major works to date, which are reproduced here along with several very recent pictures and a generous selection of artistic sources, cousins, and echoes. The latter are illustrations to Galassi's essay, which sketches the breadth and originality of Wall's artistic and intellectual universe and challenges conventional interpretations of his development and achievement. The book also includes an interview with the artist by James Rondeau, Frances & Thomas Dittmer Chairman, Department of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.