{"title":"Thierry de Duve","description":"\u003cp\u003eThierry de Duve’s work offers profound insights into contemporary art, exploring the intersections of aesthetics, philosophy, and cultural history. His writings, such as \u003cem\u003eDuchamp’s Telegram\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the transformative moments that have shaped modern and postmodern art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in critical perspectives on iconic figures and movements will find de Duve’s analyses both illuminating and thought-provoking. His books engage deeply with the visual arts, making them essential for enthusiasts of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jeff-wall-by-jean-francois-chevrier-9780714855974","title":"Jeff Wall","description":"Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWall is foremost among the pioneering artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art. His constructed images employ the latest sophisticated technology in the creation of compelling tableaux, which are evocative of subjects ranging from Hollywood cinema to nineteenth-century history painting. When exhibited in their glowing light boxes they evoke both the seduction of the cinema screen and the physical presence of minimalist sculptures such as Dan Flavin's fluorescent light installations or Donald Judd's metal and Perspex wall reliefs. All of these elements - traditional figurative painting, cinema, Minimalism, Conceptual art, documentary photography - are consciously evoked and explored in Wall's work. Associated closely since the late 1960s with Conceptual artists such as Dan Graham, with whom he collaborated on \u003ci\u003eThe Children's Pavilion\u003c\/i\u003e (1988-93), Wall has engaged at a sophisticated level with theories of representation and its social dimensions both as an artist and as a theoretical writer on contemporary art and culture.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362742943980,"sku":"9780714855974","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/13860563482442.jpg?v=1772899432"},{"product_id":"duchamps-telegram-by-thierry-de-duve-9781789146981","title":"Duchamp’s Telegram","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later, it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that point on, the whole Western art world reconfigured itself as 'post-Duchamp'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDuchamp’s Telegram\u003c\/em\u003e offers a reading of Duchamp's telegram that sheds new light onto its first reception, corrects some historical mistakes, and reveals that Duchamp's urinal, in fact, heralds the demise of the fine arts system and the advent of what Thierry de Duve calls the 'Art-in-General' system. Further, the author shows that this new system does not date from the 1960s but rather from the 1880s. Duchamp was neither its author nor its agent, but rather its brilliant messenger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430649184492,"sku":"9781789146981","price":76.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789146981.jpg?v=1774558918"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/thierry-de-duve.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}