Rodney Graham
Auteur : Rodney Graham, Jack Liang, York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery
Date de publication : 1998
Éditeur : Art Gallery of York University
Nombre de pages : 24
Résumé du livre
"Volume 1" in the "Collector's Choice Artists' Monographs" from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection features the work of Canadian artist Rodney Graham as he strolls, via his works, through Modernism. On Graham's meandering itinerary through photography, literature, music, art, film, psychology, and linguistics, we encounter Richard Wagner, St phane Mallarm, Edgar Allen Poe, Sigmund Freud, and Donald Judd, not to mention the prevalence of cinema and popular music. The contradictions in his work--gravity and play, reverential homage and scenarized self-presentation--show Graham to be a contemporary melancholic. This is the most comprehensive and insightful monograph of the artist's work to date.