Full Description
The first monograph covering Dibbets's iconic photographic oeuvre.
Dutchman Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) is one of the principal artists to have introduced photography into the plastic arts, and this as early as the 1960s. At a time when photography has massively invaded contemporary art institutions - not without generating confusion and excess - it is not easy to evaluate the full radicality of Dibbets's approach. This radicalism has nothing to do with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further than others; rather, he simply went 'elsewhere'. Beginning in 1967, he embarked on a long-range project which, as we advance into the 21st century, he seems not to have abandoned: the 'pictorializing' of photography. Jan Dibbets is one of the few artists of his generation and reputation not to have seen his oeuvre accorded full monographic coverage. This exhaustive study seeks to fill this gap by covering almost fifty years of his photographic oeuvre.
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Contents
Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1 Context(s) / Beginnings
A Rapid Rise
Going in the Opposite Direction: A Conceptual Crossing
Conceptual photography: the impossible document
On representation
The Perspective Corrections
"Audiovisual Documentation": the exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld
Process
Metro piece—Paris, The Halifax Diary
Robin Redbreast's Territory
Elective Affinities: An Impure Minimal Art
Contradictions
Illusionism
Other criteria
Objecthood
Ontological quest
Sequences
The Shadowpieces
Flood Tide
The Shortest Day
Shutterspeed Pieces
Part 2 Pretext(s) / Developments
From Nature to Color
The horizon
The aquatic and vegetal subjects
The Colorstudies
From Structure to Architecture
The Structure panoramas
The last floors, Piccolo mondo, Kosmos, Untitled
The tributes to Saenredam
From Architecture to Windows
San Casciano dei Bagni
Eiffeltower
The first cupolas
The last cupolas
The windows
Minneapolis, Wayzata Windows
The elliptical windows
Part 3 Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography / Exhibitions
Writings by Jan Dibbets
Interviews with Jan Dibbets
Books on Jan Dibbets
Miscellaneous Publications
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
Index of Works
Photographic Credits
