Andreas Gursky
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Andreas Gursky
Hatje Cantz , Kunstmuseum Basel, c2007
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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies
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Catalog of an exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Basel, Oct. 20, 2007 to Feb. 24, 2008
Text in German and English
Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-127)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Famed worldwide for his epically proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information--which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image--achieved by digital restructuring--produces a vertiginous effect on the viewer, as it oscillates between total representation and total abstraction. It could be said that Gursky updates the eighteenth-century sublime for our times.
This publication surveys the artist's most recent creations, on display at the renowned Kunstmuseum Basel throughout the winter of 2007/2008. Two new groups of works in particular, one on Formula 1 races and the other on the famous Arirang Festival (a closely choreographed mass spectacle in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang), are gathered here.
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