View of the Moscow Kremlin, a Fortified Complex in the Russian Capital, 1838

Antique print titled 'View of Tula, the Sheffield of Russia, in the approach from Moscow'. View of Tula, Russia. This print originates from 'Travels in Various Countries of Europe, A...

Antique print titled 'The Kremlin, Moscow'. Lithograph depicting the Moscow Kremlin. This print originates from 'n Illustrated Record of Important Events in the Annals of Europe during the Last Four Years; Comprising A Series of Views of The Principal Places, Battles, etc Connected with those Events' by Robert...

Antique print titled 'Der Kreml. Während des Brandes'. Original antique print of the Kremlin, during the Fire of Moscow, 1812. This print originates from 'Der Feldzug von 1812' by Fr...

Antique print titled 'Moscau am 20 September'. Original antique print of Moscow, during the Fire of Moscow, 1812. This print originates from 'Der Feldzug von 1812' by Friedrich Stege...

A classical rollabe vintage wall chart showing an aerial view of the city of Moscow, Russia. It was published by Westermann. Used as teaching material in German schools. Colorful pri...

Wonderful image of The Temple of Baalbek Fine steel engraving after W.H Bartlett Published by Fisher. Dated 1838 Unframed. Free shipping

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...

View of the castle of FONTAINEBLEAU from the garden. A rare engraving from the early nineteenth century. ref. ST/777.