art & theory
Jan Dibbets, The Photographic Work Erik Verhagen
The first monograph covering Dibbets’s iconic photographic oeuvre Dutchman Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) is one of the principal artists to have introduced photography into the plastic arts, and this as early as the 1960s. At a time when photography has massively invaded contemporary art institutions – not without generating confusion and excess – it is not easy to evaluate the full radicality of Dibbets’s approach. This radicalism has nothing to do with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further than others; rather, he simply went elsewhere. Beginning in 1967, he embarked on a long-range project which, as we advance into the 21st century, he seems not to have abandoned: the ‘pictorializing’ of photography. Jan Dibbets is one of the few artists of his generation and reputation not to have seen his oeuvre accorded full monographic coverage. This exhaustive study seeks to fill this gap by covering almost fifty years of his photographic oeuvre.
erik verhagen is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Valenciennes, in France.
Previously published in the Lieven Gevaert Series
Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën Mieke Bleyen € 39,50 / £35.00, isbn 978 90 5867 968 0, paperback, Lieven Gevaert Series 17 Aïm Deüelle Lüski and Horizontal Photography Ariella Azoulay € 34,50 / £30.00, isbn 978 90 5867 949 9, paperback, Lieven Gevaert Series 16 n
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€ 39,50 / £35.00 isbn 978 90 5867 991 8 April 2014 Paperback, 17 x 23 cm 208 pp. Illustrated English Lieven Gevaert Series 18