| Chapter title | Gursky, Ruff, Demand: allegories of the real and the return of history |
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| Authors | Matheson, N. |
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| Editors | Sutton, D., Brind, S. and McKenzie, R. |
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| Abstract | Focusing on the work of contemporary German photographers Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff, this essay argues that their work can be considered a modern form of ‘history painting’ and should be read in terms of allegory. The essay marks a break with dominant aesthetic readings of these works and reasserts the socio-political dimension of their practice. |
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| Keywords | photography, aesthetics, real |
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| Book title | The state of the real: aesthetics in the digital age |
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| Page range | 38-47 |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
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| Published | 2007 |
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| Place of publication | London, UK |
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| ISBN | 1845110773 |
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