Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine: Deforming 'Pictures'

Tamara Trodd*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPhotography after Conceptual Art
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages130-152
Number of pages23
ISBN (Print)9781444333602
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Apr 2011

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • 'pictorialist' photography - as practised by Andreas Gursky or Thomas Demand
  • Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1988
  • Jeff Wall's 'first picture', Destroyed Room of 1978 - as number 1 in his catalogue raisonne
  • Jeff Wall, act of appropriation - lifting Levine's work over to his side, that Solomon-Godeau had drawn
  • Photography and 'pictures' - migration between mediums, painting to staged photograph - or press photograph to paper sculpture and back to photography
  • Picture-space as bodily - from Roland Barthes, a bodily conception of pictorial composition - within classical French picture-theory
  • Sherrie Levine, at least as important a parent - to the new pictorialism as Wall himself is thought to be
  • The body without organs - Demand and his visceral, uncanny 'squirming' life of dead things
  • Thomas Demand's work, linked - strongly to that of Sherrie Levine
  • Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall and Sherrie Levine - deforming 'Pictures'

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