Miraculous Beginnings (French Edition) - Softcover

Raad; Raad, Walid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854881905 ISBN 13: 9780854881901

Publisher: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2010

Synopsis

What is a photographic image? Can a photograph ever tell the truth? These are some of the questions artist Walid Raad (born 1967) has been investigating for the past 20 years, in a practice that encompasses photography, film and video, sculpture, installation and performance. This publication brings together three major bodies of work: the photographic and video works produced under the fictional collective name The Atlas Group; various series of seemingly "straight" photography of his native Beirut titled Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut); and his most recent project, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World. The publication includes an exchange between the artist and curator Achim Borchardt-Hume; an essay on conceptions of truth by poet and writer Alan Gilbert; a text on Raad's use of photography and its ties to Beirut by Blake Stimson; and an essay by Hélène Chouteau-Matikian.

About this title

About the Author:

Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and former Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Stuart Comer is the Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA.

Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Review:

Walid Raad...makes elaborate artistic fictions with a wry and whimsical sense of humor delivered in a deadpan style worthy of Borges. (Christopher Lyon Bookforum)

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitechapel Art Gallery
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0854881905
• ISBN 13: 9780854881901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 141