Jan Dibbets : The photographic work / Erik Verhagen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verhagen, Erik, author.

Series:

Lieven Gevaert series ; 18.

Lieven Gevaert Series ; 18

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Dibbets, Jan, 1941---Criticism and interpretation.

Dibbets, Jan.

Dibbets, Jan, 1941-.

Photography, Artistic.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

271 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

Translated from the Dutch.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Context(s) / Beginnings

A Rapid Rise 17

Going in the Opposite Direction: A Conceptual Crossing 25

Conceptual photography: the impossible document 27

On representation 31

The Perspective Corrections 35

"Audiovisual Documentation":. the exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld 41

Process 42

Metro piece-Paris, The Halifax Diary 45

Robin Redbreasts Territory 47

Elective Affinities: An Impure Minimal Art 51

Contradictions 52

Illusionism 53

Other criteria 54

Objecthood 56

Ontological quest 57

Sequences 58

The Shadowpieces 59

Flood Tide 62

The Shortest Day 64

Shutterspeed Pieces 66

Part 2 Pretext(s) / Developments

From Nature to Color 71

The horizon 71

The aquatic and vegetal subjects 85

The Colorstudies 99

From Structure to Architecture 107

The Structure panoramas 107

The last floors, Piccolo mondo, Kosmos, Untitled 113

The tributes to Saenredam 120

From Architecture to Windows 129

San Casciano dei Bagni 129

Eiffeltower 134

The first cupolas 139

The last cupolas 145

The windows 147

Minneapolis, Wayzata Windows 148

The elliptical windows 151

Part 3 Conclusion

Conclusion 163

Notes 173

Bibliography / Exhibitions 219

Wtitings by Jan Dibbets 219

Interviews with Jan Dibbets 219

Books on Jan Dibbets 221

Miscellaneous Publications 229

Selected solo exhibitions 243

Selected group exhibitions 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789058679918

9058679918

OCLC:

885427929