Title: Alfredo Jaar
First published: 1987
Description: "An architect interested in ephemeral structures, a photographer who has grown increasingly suspicious of pictures, Alfredo Jaar's most telling gesture is to relinquish the camera by placing it, figuratively and sometimes literally, in the public's hands. In other words, Jaar is a master of indirection. And no wonder. His work was shaped at the outset by the need to speak clearly and forcefully against murderous injustice, using language of the most lucid obliquity. Jaar's work declares that daring to connect and participate is our last, best hope."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: In art, Photography of art, Art, Exhibitions, Installations (Art), Criticism and interpretation, Public art, Video art, Genocide, Rwanda Civil War, 1994, Political aspects of Art, Political aspects, Artistic Photography, Photography, Artistic, History, Photography, exhibitions, Art, political aspects, Art, american, Ausstellung, Chile, biography, Art criticism, Artists, united states, Influence
Places: Chile, Rwanda, United States
People: Alfredo Jaar
Time periods: 1973-1988, Civil War, 1994