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Jeff Wall : north & west.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver ; Berkeley : Whistler, BC, Canada : Figure. 1 ; Audain Art Museum, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: viii, 55 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781927958483
  • 1927958482
  • 9781927958872
  • 1927958873
Other title:
  • North & west
  • North and west
Uniform titles:
  • Photographs. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 779.092 22 WAL
Contents:
Foreword / Suzanne E. Greening -- Boy on a bicycle / Aaron Peck -- Works of Art. The Storyteller -- The Old Prison -- Coastal Motifs -- Volunteer -- Shapes on a tree -- Clipped Branches, E. Cordova St., Vancouver -- A man with a rifle -- Tattoos and Shadows -- Night -- Rainfilled suitcase -- A woman with a covered tray -- Fieldwork -- Hotels, Carrall St., Vancouver, summer 2005 -- In front of a nightclub -- Fortified door -- Knife throw -- Boy falls from tree -- Young man wet with rain -- Boxing -- Band & crowd -- Monologue.
Summary: "Jeff Wall has lived in his hometown of Vancouver for all but four years of his life. Most of the images he has created are shot in and around that city, yet his art transcends these local subjects and addresses universal themes of history and memory. That explains why his work is celebrated around the world and has been the subject of countless international exhibitions from the Tate Modern, to MoMa, to the Art Institute of Chicago. His importance to photoconceptualism is recognized throughout the art world and his cinematographic pictures are immensely popular with the public and the academy alike. The images he has chosen for North and West explore the meaning of history and how we remember the cities we inhabit. The towns imprinted in our minds no longer exist. Urban landscapes constantly change but the remnants of the past remain and history's influence never ends. North and West is a succinct and indispensible look into the profoundly moving and influential oeuvre of Jeff Wall"--Provided by publisher.
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Audain Art Museum from November 21, 2015 to April 24, 2016.

"This catalogue was prepared for the Audain Art Museum exhibition Jeff Wall : North & West."

"This book is a record of an exhibition that did not take place"--Errata.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Suzanne E. Greening -- Boy on a bicycle / Aaron Peck -- Works of Art. The Storyteller -- The Old Prison -- Coastal Motifs -- Volunteer -- Shapes on a tree -- Clipped Branches, E. Cordova St., Vancouver -- A man with a rifle -- Tattoos and Shadows -- Night -- Rainfilled suitcase -- A woman with a covered tray -- Fieldwork -- Hotels, Carrall St., Vancouver, summer 2005 -- In front of a nightclub -- Fortified door -- Knife throw -- Boy falls from tree -- Young man wet with rain -- Boxing -- Band & crowd -- Monologue.

"Jeff Wall has lived in his hometown of Vancouver for all but four years of his life. Most of the images he has created are shot in and around that city, yet his art transcends these local subjects and addresses universal themes of history and memory. That explains why his work is celebrated around the world and has been the subject of countless international exhibitions from the Tate Modern, to MoMa, to the Art Institute of Chicago. His importance to photoconceptualism is recognized throughout the art world and his cinematographic pictures are immensely popular with the public and the academy alike. The images he has chosen for North and West explore the meaning of history and how we remember the cities we inhabit. The towns imprinted in our minds no longer exist. Urban landscapes constantly change but the remnants of the past remain and history's influence never ends. North and West is a succinct and indispensible look into the profoundly moving and influential oeuvre of Jeff Wall"--Provided by publisher.

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