The photographic works of Canadian artist Jeff Wall (b. 1946)--staged, apparently quotidian scenes presented in large-format light boxes--have persistently preoccupied art historians and critics. In this volume, Stefan Gronert, curator for contemporary art at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, tracks the multilayered references to the history of painting that Jeff Wall, himself an art historian, integrates into his work. For example, the title of The Thinker (1986) is itself a reference to Rodin; Wall, however, transfers the figure in the typical Thinker pose to a contemporary urban setting and introduces...
The photographic works of Canadian artist Jeff Wall (b. 1946)--staged, apparently quotidian scenes presented in large-format light boxes--have persist...
