Tate Modern Artists Jeff Wall

by Burnett, Craig

• ISBN13: 9781854376114
• ISBN10: 185437611X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-17
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

""I don't paint but I began as a painter. I take the term "painter" as figurative.... Painter can mean 'maker' in that sense."" -Jeff Wall in conversation with David Shapiro Born in 1946 in British Columbia, Jeff Wall has shown internationally for the last 25 years and is one of the most intriguing and influential artists working today. His signature works are large-scale narrative photographs in the form of backlit transparencies mounted in light boxes, like bus stop advertisements. Rather than advertising products, Wall's photographs celebrate moments of everyday life, often ones he has observed while driving around the streets of his native Vancouver, and then re-created using actors. His use of the light box as a medium has been copied by many younger artists, and his theoretical writings on photography are widely admired. This book is part of a Tate Publishing series focused on living artists. Generously illustrated, accessible, and affordable, the Modern Artists series will build to become an essential reference for all those interested in contemporary visual culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
The Painter of Modern Life	p. 8
Mimic 1982	p. 20
Conflict and Dialogue (1984-9)	p. 26
The Storyteller 1986	p. 38
Everyday Fantasies and Impossible Realities (1989-93)	p. 44
Dead Troops Talk (A Vision After an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol Near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter 1986) 1992	p. 58
The Still Point of a Good Picture (1993-6)	p. 64
Odradek, Taboritska 8, Prague, 18 July 1994 1994	p. 76
Space, Fate and Democracy (1996-9)	p. 80
Morning Cleaning, Mies Van Der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona 1999	p. 90
Invisible Chimeras (2000-Present)	p. 95
The Flooded Grave 1998-2000	p. 104
Context: The Wisdom of Pictures	p. 110
Biography	p. 124
Index	p. 127
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