Print of a Fortified Mosque and of Nobility in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1874

Antique print Indonesia titled 'Fort en Dorp Pedir, ten oosten van de hoofdstad Atchin gelegen'. Antique print depicting a scene in Indonesia. Originates from 'De Oorlog tusschen Ned...

Antique map titled 'Groot-Atjeh en aangrenzende Kuststaten'. Old map of Aceh, with surrounding coastal regions. This map originates from 'Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indië' ...

Antique print Indonesia titled 'Kotta Goenoengan of Taman, met Bezetting' and 'Monster Kanon, liggende aan de Poort van den Kraton'. Antique print depicting two scenes in Indonesia. ...

Antique print Indonesia titled 'Atchineesche Begraafplaats in de Nabijheid van den Kraton' and 'Brug over de Atchin-Rivier bij Kampong Djawa'. Antique print depicting two scenes in I...

Antique map of Aceh, Sumatra. This map originates from 'Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indië' by I. Dornseiffen. Artists and Engravers: Published by Seyffardt's Boekhandel, A...

Antique print titled 'Missigit in Kampong Djawa'. Antique print depicting a scene in Indonesia. Originates from 'De Oorlog tusschen Nederland en Atchin' by G.L. Klepper. Artis...

The documentary image fortified door is a portrait of urban defence that denies entry not only to visitors but also to the viewer. Tightly cropped and shot nearly head-on, it offers little information about its location or context (although small clues can be found at the edges of the photo). The door and the picture of it share a particularly ambivalent position in time, quoting idioms from the past but bearing traces of the present. Jeff Wall adopts the 19th century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as "a painter of modern life" to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted onto light boxes which diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations. Jeff Wall is foremost among the pioneering artists who since the late 1960s have brought photography to the forefront of contemporary art. His constructed images employ the latest sophisticated technology in the creation of compelling tableaux, which are evocative of subjects ranging from Hollywood cinema to nineteenth-century history painting. When exhibited in their glowing light boxes they evoke both the seduction of the cinema screen and the physical presence of minimalist sculptures such as Dan Flavin's fluorescent light installations or Donald Judd's metal and Perspex wall reliefs. All of these elements - traditional figurative painting, cinema, minimalism, conceptual art, documentary photography - are consciously evoked and explored in Wall's work. Associated closely since the late 1960s with conceptual artists such as Dan Graham...

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints by Chelsea Foxwell. University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum, 2012. First edition softcover cata...

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints by Chelsea Foxwell. University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum, 2012. 1st Ed softcover catalog. Wh...

Cricket print of Joseph Guy of Nottingham. A framed, tinted and hand colored lithographic portrait of the All- England cricketer Joseph Guy (1813 - 187...

Print depicting a schooner, no. 1 of 400 copies signed Z21, made in the mid-19th century. Non-coeval briarwood frame; measures with frame 50 x 40 cm.  

Dimensions: Frame: height 71.5 cm / width 55 cm Oleo printing: 63 cm high.