The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960–1982
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 & 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.
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Chevrier Jean-François (Article author), Bochner Mel (Article author), Prince Richard (Article author), Alloway Lawrence (Article author), Lingwood James (Article author), Baldessari John (Article author), Crimp Douglas (Article author), Levine Sherrie (Article author), Coleman Allan Douglass (Article author), Lee Pamela M. (Article author), Kruger Barbara (Article author), Fogle Douglas (Article author), Bush Kate (Article author), Foote Nancy (Article author), Wall Jeff (Article author), Graham Dan (Article author), Acconci Vito (Article author), Mariño Melanie (Article author), Gronert Stefan (Article author), Batchen Geoffrey (Article author), Nesbit Molly (Article author), Smithson Robert (Article author), Halbreich Kathy (Preface)
Burgin Victor, Smithson Robert, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Charlesworth Sarah, Gilbert & George, Graham Dan, Klein Yves, Knoebel Imi, Levine Sherrie, LeWitt Sol, Merz Mario, Elk Ger van, Feldmann Hans‑Peter, Matta‑Clark Gordon, Mohamedi Nasreen, Oiticica Hélio, Oppenheim Dennis, Penone Giuseppe, Prince Richard, Ruppersberg Allen, Wall Jeff, d'Almeida Neville, Piper Adrian, Wegman William, Welling James, Polke Sigmar, Warhol Andy, Mendieta Ana, Nauman Bruce, Charles Ray, Rosler Martha, Ruscha Ed, Sherman Cindy, Simmons Laurie, Watts Robert, Huebler Douglas, Fischli & Weiss, Dibbets Jan, Export Valie, Kolbowski Silvia, Acconci Vito, Ader Bas Jan, Antin Eleanor, Baldessari John, Boltanski Christian, Broodthaers Marcel, Conner Bruce, Koons Jeff, Lamelas David, Lawler Louise, Anselmo Giovanni, Haacke Hans, Kruger Barbara, Long Richard, Paolini Giulio, Wilke Hannah, Beuys Joseph, Bochner Mel
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2003
335 pages
9780935640762
Available on request
Yes
No
777.51 2003
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