Wolfgang Tillmans

by Julie Ault, Daniel Birnbaum, Russell Ferguson, Dominic Molon, Lane Relyea, and M

• ISBN13: 9780300120226
• ISBN10: 0300120222
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

"This catalogue accompanies Wolfgang Tillmans's first retrospective exhibition in the United States and covers his interests in the alchemy of light, our "being-in-the-world," and the potent effects of his portraits, abstractions, and structural and sculptural motifs."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Julie Ault is an artist and editor of Alternative Art New York, 1965–1985. Daniel Birnbaum is the author of The Unthought Known: Balka, Salcedo, Ketter, Gober, Tuymans and is a contributing editor for Artforum. Russell Ferguson is Deputy Director of Programs and Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Dominic Molon is Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Lane Relyea is Assistant Professor of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, and the author of Vija Celmins. Mark Wigley is Dean at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and the author of several books, including  Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire.

Table of Contents

A new visual register for our perceptual apparatus	p. 15
A pulse within the system : Wolfgang Tillmans and photoconceptualism	p. 35
Faces in the crowd	p. 65
Photography's everyday life and the ends of abstraction	p. 89
The subject is exhibition	p. 119
The space of exposure	p. 145
Artist's biography	p. 161
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