Photography's everyday life and the ends of abstraction

Author

Relyea, Lane; Ault, Julie (Contributor, Collective Author); Birnbaum, Daniel (Contributor, Collective Author); Ferguson, Russell (Contributor, Collective Author); Molon, Dominic (Contributor, Collective Author); Relyea, Lane (Contributor, Collective Author); Wigley, Mark (Contributor, Collective Author)

Document type

Article (catalogue d'exposition)

Language

English

Book title

Wolfgang Tillmans

Source

Wolfgang Tillmans. 2006, 88-105, 6 col. ill.

Publisher

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Discusses Wolfgang Tillmans's abstract photography and attempts to relate it to the rest of his oeuvre. Posits that abstraction, for Tillmans, helps in the "quest for generality" and that this generality, in turn, helps recover abstraction from its current status as an overly narrow artistic category. Considers 20th-c. art criticism and theory, color-field painting of the 1960s, artistic intention, and technique (especially Tillmans's use of ink jet printing).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Pictorial arts -- Photography -- United Kingdom
• Tillmans, Wolfgang, b.1968
• Great Britain
• 1900-2100
• Photography
• Copies
• Abstract art
• Abstraction
• Art theory
• Art criticism
• Color-field painting
• Artistic intention
• Technique

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Photographie -- Royaume-Uni
• Tillmans, Wolfgang, n.1968
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1900-2100
• Photographie
• Copie
• Abstrait (art)
• Abstraction
• Théorie de l'art
• Critique d'art
• Colorfield
• Intention artistique
• Technique

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00023948

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