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OverviewFamed 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Beate Sontgen , Nina Zimmer , Bernhard Mendes BurgiPublisher: Hatje Cantz Imprint: Hatje Cantz Dimensions: Width: 24.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 30.00cm Weight: 0.962kg ISBN: 9783775720199ISBN 10: 3775720197 Pages: 112 Publication Date: 11 January 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Awaiting stock Language: English & German Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |