The Jeff Wall Catalogue Raisonné traces the gradual evolution of Wall’s pictorial concept. In an allusion to Charles Baudelaire’s dictum on Manet, Wall describes his work as the “painting of modern life”. Wall’s color photographs consist of large-format transparencies, mounted in aluminium boxes and illuminated from behind. Since 1996, the artist has also produced large-format ...(展开全部)

Jeff Wall is foremost among the artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art. This revised and expanded edition of the definitive monograph on the Canadian artist, first published in 1996, includes a new fully illustrated essay on Wall's recent work by the French historian of art and photography Jean-François Chevrier, in a...(展开全部)

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 i...(展开全部)

GOD IS DAD. That was the title of Sarah Lucas's last show in New York, in which the pun-prone artist assembled an array of sculptures constructed from cast concrete forms, tacky beige nylon stockings, and random metal objects. These typically abject art pieces fit right into the body of work Lucas has been building since the early 1990s from apparently banal, everyday materials...(展开全部)

Throughout his career, the influential Canadian art photographer Jeff Wall has written periodically on a variety of subjects--from the work of his Vancouver colleagues, to the art of such diverse figures as Edouard Manet, On Kawara, and Dan Graham, to the important role of photography in Conceptual art. Wall's own work takes center stage in the many interviews he has granted ov...(展开全部)

Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art In the mid-1960s, at the height of his creative powers, Andy Warhol produced hundreds of three-minute cinematic portraits, called "Screen Tests." Although rarely screened now, these short films captured a virtual who's who of the avant-garde, including such cultural icons as Edie Sedgwick, Bob Dylan, Salvador Da...(展开全部)

この巨大な壁は何? 人々を消失させる恐怖のWALLから逃げられるのか? 202X年のある夏の日、シコタン島(色丹島)の墓地で祈りを捧げていた ロシア人老夫婦が、丘の上から半透明のヴェールが近づいていることに気づく。不思議に思った二人が手をつないだままその壁に触れたとき、彼らの腕は「消去」した――。触れた人間の肉体のみが消去される「ウォール」と名付けられたこの巨大な壁は、1日に20km程度という遅さながら、やがて北海道に上陸、本州も射程に、徐々に西へと、人々を飲み込んでいく。本土上陸から首都圏到達まで1か月ほどしか猶予はない。真実とデマが入り混じりながら拡散され、日本はパニックに包まれていく。「ウォール」が暗示するものは、人類を奈落に突き落とす自然災害や疫病であり、経済格差によって人々を「分断」するものであり、無慈悲な「神の制裁」であり、極めて「平等な...(展开全部)