Jeff Wall

Szenarien im Bildraum der Wirklichkeit (Scenarios in the Pictorial Space of Reality)
Essays and Interviews
VOLUME 142

An Outstanding Art Historian, Critic, and Artist All at Once

Since the late seventies, the Canadian artist and art historian Jeff Wall (b. 1947 in Vancouver, where he still lives and works) has been reactivating Baudelaire’s program for the painting of modern life via his meticulously staged photographs presented in light boxes. Alongside his artistic production, Wall has written numerous essays that address the significance of photography in understanding modern art. The thematic focus here is on analyses of Conceptual Art’s historical development and the role photography played in the movement, with which Wall’s own artistic trajectory is intimately connected. This volume from the Fundus series offers a selection of Wall’s most important essays and interviews that clearly articulates the relationship between his artistic work and theoretical reflections.

With a foreword by the art historian Gregor Stemmrich (b. 1953, lives and works in Berlin).