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Since the late 1960s, Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940) has been an
important figure in contemporary art, associated with such major
international art movements as minimal art, conceptual art, and
visual poetry. His artistic work embraces an equally wide range of
media: sculpture, architecture, books, film, and photography.
This book provides, for the first time, a profound insight into
Downsbrough's diverse and complex use of photography within his
artistic work over the last 40 years. A substantial essay by
Alexander Streitberger discusses the artist's photographic work
which includes single prints, series, postcards, collages, and
books within its aesthetic and historical context. Streitberger
relates Downsbrough's work to fundamental issues of photographic
practice and discourse such as the photograph as document, the
representation of urban space, space-time relations, collage as an
aesthetic and political means of expression, the relationship
between still and moving image, and the context of
presentation.
The rich image material some of which has never been published
before is arranged by the artist himself in order to create a
fertile exchange between the topics of the text and his own
intervention. Concluding with an exclusive interview with the
artist, this book offers a genuine dialogue between artistic
practice and theoretical reflection."
Heterogeneous Objects explores the encounter of photography with
other media since the 1960s. The essays offer new ways of thinking
about photography beyond modernist notions of medium specificity
and autonomy based upon the idea that a photograph does not rely on
a coherent system of codes but is almost always encountered as a
fragmented, partial object. Addressing recent debates in art
history and photography theory, film studies, and media theory, the
contributions cover a broad array of approaches. Rather than
conceiving of photography as a medium, the aim is to reconsider the
photograph as a historically, theoretically, and culturally
embedded heterogeneous object that is always related to, in contact
with, or shaped by other media.
Contributors: Diarmuid Costello, University of Warwick; Steven
Jacobs, University of Ghent; Joanna Lowry, University of Brighton;
Marcel Marburger, Universitat der Kunste, Berlin; Raphael Pirenne,
Universite catholique de Louvain; Yvonne Spielmann, University of
the West of Scotland; Alexander Streitberger, Universite catholique
de Louvain; Hilde Van Gelder, KU Leuven University of Leuven"
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