Public Information
Desire, Disaster, Document
text by Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Sandra S. Phillips ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Sandra S. Phillips ...[et al.]John R. Lane, Christopher Phillips, Sandra S. Phillips, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Robert R. Riley, John S. Weber

Publication

San Francisco : Museum of Modern Art, 1995

Scope

187 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.

Carrier

exhibition catalogue

ISBN

1881616452

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This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 18 - April 30, 1995. It showes artists who have used photographic images in their work. The essays address how society gets its information, and show us the influence of the advertising media on the art world. The book examines the overall cultural impact of photographically reproduced images, as well as the nature of the medium itself.

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Person as subject

Robert Frank, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Edward Ruscha, John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Larry Clark, Jeff Wall, James Coleman, Chantel Akerman, Nan Goldin, Stan Douglas

Keywords

photography , various disciplines , art theory , media

Location

Cabinet 9 - 2: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Remarks

Incl. notes, bibliographical References