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Christian Boltanski: La Vie Impossible: What People Remember About Him
Christian Boltanski

Walther Konig, 2002

Description: "He left school very early on and made many spelling mistakes, he liked to brag about that." "He worked very little or at least that's what he said, he claimed that he lived a retiring life, that he spent his time in public gardens or in museums in winter because they were heated." 100 autobiographical statements like these are juxtaposed opposite 100 photo and document collages to form La Vie Impossible.

Perspectives@25
Paola Morsiani, Paula Newton, ...

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2005

"Encapsulating 143 exhibitions with illustrations of work by 77 of the over 800 artists who participated, Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's Perspectives series (one of the first in the U.S. to focus on contemporary art developments). In this beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated book, art lovers learn about an important aspect of the history ...

Christian Boltanski (Contemporary Artists)

4 reviews
Christian Boltanski

Phaidon Press, 1997

Beautifuly haunting book, for a beautifuly haunting artist
I have extensively researched Christian Boltanski and would highly recommend this wonderful book. It reads like an exhibition. Five stars *****

Christian Boltanski: Advent and Other Times
Gloria Moure, Christian Boltanski, ...

Rizzoli International Publications, 1998

Christian Boltanski's first one-man Paris exhibition took place precisely in May 1968: at least in theory, therefore, his personality should coincide exactly with the archetypal soixantehuitard that postmodern critics are at such pains to discredit. On the other hand, however, if his work is examined retrospectively and compared to what young artists are producing today, a considerable number of connections is revealed which denotes at least ...

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982
Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, ...

Walker Art Center, 2003

"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 ...

Do It

1 review
Harold Garfinkel, Daniel Birnbaum, ...

e-flux/Revolver, 2005

an unusual, clever, and fun angle on contemporary art
The editor/curators of this book got 50 contemporary artists to each write down instructions for a do-it-yourself art project, for the reader to try. Each is a small revelation of the artist, and a thought-provoker in itself. It's intelligent and fun -- a very clever expression and extension of contemporary art. It's just the thing for anyone who wishes they were artistic: you read an entry, ...

Kaddish
Christian Boltanski

Kehayoff Verlag, 1998

50 Years Of Documenta 1955-2005
Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joseph Beuys, ...

Steidl/Documenta, 2005

In 1955, the first Documenta was held in the provincial town of Kassel, Germany, alongside the National Garden Festival. No one imagined back then that the exhibition, held every five years, would develop into the world's most important forum for contemporary art. Although the name Documenta stands for an all-encompassing vision, each of the 11 exhibitions to date has been unique, with its own aims and atmosphere. The history of Documenta ...

Sachlich
Christian Boltanski

Kehayoff Verlag, 1998

Christian Boltanski: Monte di Pieta
Sergio Troisi, Christian Boltanski

Charta, 2002

Born in Paris in 1944, Christian Boltanski is undoubtedly one of the most interesting French artists in the panorama of contemporary art, and has been a leading figure in the international art scene for over 20 years. He began his artistic career at a very young age with his large canvas paintings, but in 1968 he abandoned painting for a less traditional and more conceptual means of expression which included mixed media and found objects. He has ...

Christian Boltanski: Scratch
Christian Boltanski

Walther Konig, 2003

In this book of forbidden images, the responsibility for viewing photographs many would not want to see is left entirely up to the reader. A silver surface has been printed over each of the graphic, disturbing pictures reproduced herein, covering them up in their entirety--only upon scratching the surface off can the images beneath be revealed.

Archives
Christian Boltanski

Actes Sud, 1992

Sterblich
Christian Boltanski

Gina Kehayoff Pub, 1998

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