Jeff Wall

(Contemporary Artists series). The work of Canadian artist Jeff Wall has established photography at the forefront of contemporary art. Wall deploys state-of-the-art film and computing technology while invoking the composition, scale and subject-matter of such painters as Velazquez, Goya and Manet. His giant transparencies are mounted on light boxes to combine the seductive glow of a cinema screen with the physical presence of minimalist sculpture. Celebrating Wall as art historian & theorist, the book incloudings his key writings and important interviews. Wall has chosen texts by Blaise Pascal and Franz Kafka as well. Addenda. Color illus. 212p.