{"product_id":"9781350559882","title":"Wolfgang Tillmans and the Self-Sufficiency of Images Ecological Thinking and Contemporary Art","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWolfgang Tillmans and the Self-Sufficiency of Images\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eEcological Thinking and Contemporary Art\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSara R. Yazdani\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ Individual Artists \/ Monographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book presents the first academic criticism of the artist Wolfgang Tillmans. Placing the artist's work into dialogue with art history, art and media theory, it explores how he has informed a new art discourse of “self-sufficiency,” and positions his work as an ecological practice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe groundbreaking work of Wolfgang Tillmans since the early 1990s has arguably responded to environmental and social challenges of our times. Interweaving art history with environmental humanities and media theory, this book reveals how Tillmans's work acts as an alternative and resistant concept for the Anthropocene, comprised of ongoing stories and new realities-as generators of alternative worlds. Ultimately, in this innovative book, Sara R. Yazdani traces the “self-sufficient image” in his work–a term Tillmans coined in a 2007 to refer to artworks as autonomous entities. Yazdani argues, among other things, that photography here serves to explore how individual bodies and collectives, whether human or not, come into existence in the production of affective relations. These relations are arguably, in the work of Tillmans, political as much as epistemological, creating ecologies, histories, and knowledges about bodies, nature, and life itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on extensive archival research, the book presents close analysis of artworks and exhibitions from Tillmans's archive, publications and artists' books, notes found in the archive, the history of the artist's exhibitions from the 1990s to the present, as well as conversations between him and other artists, writers and curators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSara R. Yazdani \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Art Theory and Art History and Head of Theory in the Department of Art and Craft at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eArt Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eAfterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), \u003ci\u003eArtforum, Kunstkritikk, Mousse Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003eand several catalogues and anthologies on modern and contemporary art.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350559882\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369701802124,"sku":"9781350559882","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350559882","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}