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Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography is a monograph on the photographic work of one of Canada's most significant contemporary artists. Ian Wallace's influence is lasting and broad. He has made an outstanding impact on both his contemporaries and subsequent generations through his important work as an art historian, critic and educator and also through an art practice that has consistently demonstrated conceptual rigor and aesthetic innovation. The book draws together these key themes by presenting the images alongside essays split by nature- Still image; Studio; Museum; Street and including a chronology of key works. This book covers the full range of his distinguished career and the principle themes that he has evolved over four decades of work.

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'Ian Wallace has played a fundamental role in the development of contemporary art since the late 1960s by bringing together to great image-making traditions, painting and photography.' Art Daily 'This selection promises to shed light on how Ian Wallace retains a utopian, even romantic attachment to the promise of art and its transformative potential.' Art Forum 'Through a conceptually grounded montage, juxtaposition of individually distinct units, concepts of abstraction and representation, and figure and ground, are not only imbricated but ironically united into a new and ambiguous pictoral Formalism.' Border Crossings 'Beautifully produced, high-end art book' San Fransisco Book Review Featured in the Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Wisconsin Watch, Hunger TV, Cassone, Canadian Art Magazine, Camera Austria and Ciel Variable.

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Kathleen Ritter is an artist and a writer based in Vancouver and a graduate of Emily Carr University Art + Design. As an artist, she has exhibited audio, video and print projects across Canada. Her writing has been published in exhibition catalogs, anthologies and journals. Kathleen is the Associate Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her writing has been published in the anthology Places and Non-Places of Contemporary Art (2005) and the journals ESSE, Fillip Magazine, Open Letter, Prefix Photo and SWITCH. Daina Augaitis has been Chief Curator/Associate Director at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada since 1996. She has edited anthologies and written numerous catalog essays and articles. Christine Poggi is Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches modern and contemporary criticism. Her books include Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, Princeton Press, and In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage, Yale University Press. Shep Steiner is an art historian and critic based at The Banff Center, Alberta. Recent publications include: Allergy Patch: Michael Fried's Why Photography Matters As Art as Never Before; A New (and by Extension Leisurely) Reading of Clement Greenberg's Modernism c. 1950-1960; The Beautiful and the Everyday in the Films of Mark Lewis; Corrective (>; The Responsibility of Photography, Scott McFarland; Snow Changes Everything: Unfinished Form in the Filmwork of Ibon Aranberri. He co-edited Cork Caucus: on art, possibility, and democracy and is currently writing two books: a first on American abstract painting, Mnemotechnical Bodies: Close Readings in Modernist Painting, Sculpture and Criticism, 1950-1970, and a second on contemporary photography, The Outsides of Photography. Jessica Morgan is Curator of International Art at Tate (2002). She was previously Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

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