Art Institute of Chicago

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

Offers a survey of the key artists of the 1960s and 1970s who used photography to new and inventive ends, including such acclaimed international artists as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman and Ed Ruscha.

Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977

Light Years

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Tate Modern (Gallery)

Francis Alÿs

Klaus Peter Biesenbach

Francis Alys, born in Belgium in 1959, is one of the world's leading contemporary artists. After studying architecture in Venice, in 1986 he moved to Mexico City, where he has lived ever since. Alys works at scales ranging from the humblest drawing to the creation of epic events involving hundreds of participants, in media including video, photography, painting and performance. With an introductory essay by Mark Godfrey and comments on over sixty key works by Alys and Cuauhtemoc Medina, this book features a dictionary of quotes from the artist as well as responses to his work from a range of international contributors, including artists, critics, poets and urban theorists.

A Story of Deception

Zoé Whitley

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Modern, London, July 12-October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3-April 23, 2018; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019.

Art in the Age of Black Power

Soul of a Nation

Christopher Williams

Roxana Marcoci

"Chronologically examining the nature of his art within the context of mass media and photojournalism, this handsome volume charts the thirty-year career of the artist and photographer Christopher Williams (b. 1956). Featuring 100 color illustrations, the book also includes a trio of essays by authors Mark Godfrey, Roxana Marcoci, and Matthew S. Witkovsky that demonstrate how Williams, with high craft and a critical eye, deliberately engages yet reinterprets the conventions of photojournalism, picture archives, and commercial imagery through uncanny mimicry. Committed to the history of photography as a medium of art and intellectual inquiry, Williams's current series tackles the interplay of photography and cinema, upending viewer expectations and the role of spectacle"--

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

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