Christian Boltanski : Time

by Boltanski, Christian

• ISBN13: 9783775718257
• ISBN10: 3775718257
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-28
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Christian Boltanski is one of the most important European contemporary artists working today, masterful at staging rooms and situations. His work in photography and installation, among other media, evokes primary concerns of human existence like lifespan, identity, body, death and legacy: how will we be remembered? Christian Boltanski documents the artist's first comprehensive solo show in Germany after more than 10 years, which connects existing pieces with new creations in a unique installation transcending time and architecture. This monograph fathoms and examines the singular echo space of Christian Boltanski's art in philosophical, literary and art-historical essays by such well-known authors as Aleida Assmann and Ralf Beil, and is rounded off by an interview with the artist.

Table of Contents

Chronos meets Thanatos : introduction and acknowledgements	p. 9
On time	p. 19
Christian Boltanski as history painter of the night side of our era	p. 23
Proust	p. 37
The room	p. 39
"Life is just a short black line" : a conversation with Christian Boltanski	p. 47
Before the law	p. 85
Fury of disappearance : Christian Boltanski's archives of forgetting	p. 89
Imprinted time	p. 101
Memoirs from beyond the grave	p. 105
Paradoxical belatedness : on history, autobiography, and fiction in the work of Christian Boltanski	p. 111
Deathwatch on the southside	p. 121
The next village	p. 125
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