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by: James Rondeau
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780870707070
ISBN: 0870707078
Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: February 01, 2007
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Release Date: February 01, 2007
Sales Rank: 352346
Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Over the past three decades, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall's large color transparencies have won international acclaim. Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth-century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wall's 2007 American traveling retrospective will include all of the artist's major works to date. In addition to color plates and illuminating details, the exhibition catalogue includes an essay by Peter Galassi that explores the full range of Wall's artistic and intellectual interests and offers fresh perspectives on one of the most adventurous creative achievements of our time. The essay is followed by an interview with the artist by James Rondeau, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the exhibition will be on view during the Summer of 2007. Also available from The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Seen Better Works by Jeff Wall in Other Publications
The images shown in this publication is not his best work.
I was very disappointed by the selection of work. The essay is way too long, trying to justify the images.
Much of the work is dark and gloomy.
I remember images of Jeff's being more whimsical and interesting,
but few are shown in this publication.
I would consider some of his earlier publications if I was you.
Rating:  - Excellent Companion to the Exhibit
If you are interested in Jeff Wall's work this is an essential accompaniment to the 2007 retrospective exhibit being shown in NY, Chicago, and SF. It has a great deal of interesting background information that attendees will not otherwise receive.
So if you're a Jeff Wall fan see the exhibit if at all possible. No book can replicate the experience of seeing these enormous transparencies. But even if you can't see the exhibit get this accompanying catalog.
Rating: - The ultimate publication in contamporary art and culture
A great book about a great artist, in a great series of "Phaidon" dedicated to contemporary art. Not easy to read, but worth it. The debate about Jeff Wall's art (in which wall himself is an importent participent) encompasses many fundamental questions and notions regarding new art history, post-modernism and society at the end of this century. A must for contemporary art lovers.
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