James Casebere

James Casebere

ISBN 10: 8862081863 / ISBN 13: 9788862081863

Published by Damiani, Italy, Bologna, 2011

About this Item

'Works': This is a major mid-career survey of the work of James Casebere, the New York contemporary photographer and artist. Authored and edited by Okwui Enwezor, the renowned American art historian, it includes many lesser-known early works, never before reproduced sculpture, as well as photography from 1975 to 2011. Okwui Enwezor contributes both an insightful introduction and an extensive and revealing conversation with the artist. It also contains important essays by Hal Foster, and Tony and Ford Morrison. It is the most comprehensive and perceptive book about this important American artist to date. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: James Casebere
• Publisher: Damiani, Italy, Bologna
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8862081863
• ISBN 13: 9788862081863
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2472 grams

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Synopsis

James Casebere (born 1953) emerged in the Pictures Generation as an artist-photographer complicating the status of the photographic image alongside Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. His earliest works dismantled the codes of American suburbia and the myth of the west, but he quickly arrived at the practice for which he is best known today: the construction of formally simplified architectural models--arenas, monasteries, tunnels, factories--which Casebere lights and photographs in his studio. In the early 1990s, as the ramifications of Michel Foucault's critiques of architecture and power took hold in American culture, Casebere's practice developed into a study of architectural typologies of the Enlightenment era, particularly prisons. The lighting in his photographs is dramatic, or rather it plays with the rhetoric of dramatic lighting, qualified by the sheer artifice of the architectural models themselves. Edited by Okwui Enwezor, this major mid-career survey includes several of Casebere's lesser-known early works, as well as previously unreproduced sculpture and photographs from 1975 to 2010. Enwezor contributes both an introduction and a conversation with the artist. The volume also contains essays by Hal Foster and Toni Morrison. James Casebere: Works 1975-2010 is the most comprehensive monograph to date on this important American artist.

About the Author

James Casebere, born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1953, lives and works in New York City. Working in his studio, Casebere constructs intimate three-dimensional models of interior and exterior spaces, pared down to essential forms. He then photographs these maquettes, freezing the investigated spaces between the real and the imagined. Casebere's large-scale photographs have been exhibited worldwide in galleries such as Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, the Lisson Gallery in London and Gallery Ihn in Seoul, South Korea. Moreover, his work is included in the collections of many major museums such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate Modern and Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Turin.