Editorial Review:

During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli & Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida H fer, Thomas Ruff, J rge Sasse, Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Sam Taylor-Wood, Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Vanessa Beecroft, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patty Chang, Trisha Donnelly, Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, John Pilson and Gillian Wearing.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Essays & Photography Great, But Hard to Appreciate Videos:

This book accompanies a 2003-2004 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It begins with 30 pages of essays: "Introduction," "Picturing Movement, Past and Present," and "Art Photography after Photography." These essays do an excellent job of placing the exhibition in context. In addition, they mention works in a smaller 2002-2003 version of the exhibition in New York, which included some artists (e.g., Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, and Robert Smithson) not represented in the Bilbao... more info

Similar Products:

Art Photography Now by Susan Bright (Paperback)

The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art) by Charlotte Cotton (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Andreas Gursky by Beate Sontgen, Nina Zimmer, Andreas Gursky (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 10 to 12 days

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 by Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey... (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Cinematic (Documents of Contemporary Art) from The MIT Press (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Sam Taylor-Wood by Margo A. Crutchfield, Barbara London, Linda Nochlin (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before by Michael Fried (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski (Paperback) - Usually ships in 24 hours

The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore (Hardcover) - Usually ships in 24 hours