Jan Dibbets
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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. Ata time when photography has massively invaded contemporary art institutions- not without generating confusion and excess - it is not easy toevaluate the full radicality of Dibbets's approach. This radicalism has nothingto do with modernist overkill. Dibbets did not merely go further thanothers; rather, he simply went 'elsewhere'. Beginning in 1967, he embarkedon a long-range project which, as we advance into the 21st century, heseems not to have abandoned: the 'pictorializing' of photography.Jan Dibbets is one of the few artists of his generation and reputation notto have seen his oeuvre accorded full monographic coverage. This exhaustivestudy seeks to fill this gap by covering almost fifty years of his photographicoeuvre.