Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness

Arts & Photography

Boltanski, Christian

Individual Artists

Museum of Contemporary Art

Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd &amp; Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. Intended as a major genealogy of the rise of a still-powerful and evolving photographic practice by artists, the checklist will include a wide array of works examining a range of issues: performativity and photographic practice; portraiture and cultural identity; the formal and social architectonics of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities. Bringing together a newly commissioned body of scholarship with reprints of important historical texts, The Last Picture Show seeks to define the legacy that has produced a rich body of photographic practice in the art world today.

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 (WALKER ART CENT)

WEISS, David

Graham, Dan

Beuys, Joseph

Baldessari, John

Dibbets, Jan

Nauman, Bruce

Flood, Richard

Anselmo, Giovanni

Gronnert, Stefan

Lee, Pamela

Batchen, Geoffrey

Fischli, Peter

Bochner, Mel

Charlesworth, Sarah

Export, Valie

Acconci, Vito

Ader, Bas Jan

Broodthaers, Marcel

Kruger, Barbara

Oppenheim, Dennis

Lewitt, Sol

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Walker Art Center

La Vie possible de Christian Boltanski

Grenier, Catherine

History & Criticism

SEUIL

Dernieres Annees ("the Later Years")

Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Paris, France

Réserves, la fête de Pourim (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Museum für Gegenwartskunst

A scarce and important catalogue featuring Boltanski's printed publications from 1966-1991.

Christian Boltanski: Catalogue : Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Sachlich

Gina Kehayoff Pub

Kaddish

Christian Boltanski: Le Club Mickey

Other Media

Imschoot

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