documenta 1896-1991 foundation photography

books:

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Site Specific Projects: The Espai Poblenou Foundation
John Cage, Gloria Moure, ...

Poligrafa, 2003

From October 1989 until September 1995, fourteen site specific projects found their home in the city of Barcelona. Created by Christian Boltanski, John Cage, Jan Dribbets, Rodney Graham, Rebecca Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Bruce Newman, Sigmar Poke, Aureli Ruiz & Josa Maldonado, Ulrich Ruckriem, and Lawrence Weiner, the works provided a significant overview of important installation work of the second half of the 20th ...

Christian Boltanski

4 reviews
Christian Boltanski

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2007

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 *****

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 ...