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accession number: 1995.204.8
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"In a Dream...": Outburst, 1989. Jeff Wall (Canadian, 1946-). Silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome); image: 45.8 x 61 cm (18 1/16 x 24 in.); matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS 1995.204.8
title: Outburst
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series: "In a Dream..."
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creation date: 1989
creation date earliest: 1989
creation date latest: 1989
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creditline: Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS
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culture: Canada, 20th century
technique: silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome)
department: Photography
collection: PH - Canadian
type: Portfolio
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CREATORS
* Jeff Wall (Canadian, 1946-) - artist
Jeff Wall Canadian, 1946-
Jeff Wall (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) received critical acclaim in the late 1970s for his signature light-box vignettes, colorful staged scenes that comment on the negative effects of capitalism in late 20th-century society. Trained as an art historian at the University of British Columbia and the Courtauld Institute in London, Wall relies on his academic background, especially its emphasis on Marxist theory, to inform the work he creates.
For his earliest images, Wall produced ironic horror stills. Fabricating large stage sets controlled by studio lighting, he introduced benumbed, lifeless models engaged in, or watching, violent and disturbing scenarios. The traditional stage settings combined with the glossy displays of advertising offer pessimistic visions of a culture made insensitive to aggression, destruction, and death. This theme of death-in-life has become a stylistic trademark in Wall's work, along with his interest in the violent passion that is common to our age of what he terms "modern, bourgeois, neurotic private life."
Wall has continued to explore these ideas with the additional aid of computer manipulation. Widely shown, his work has been included in Directions 1981, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1981), documenta 7, the Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (1982), and Passage de l'image, the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1991). Wall lives in Vancouver. A.W.
* Portfolio II published by Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS - publisher
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measurements: Image: 45.8 x 61 cm (18 1/16 x 24 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "JW 89/91 11/25"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 1997-11-16T00:00:00
Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1997-March 1, 1998).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 11/16/97 - 3/1/98. "Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection."', 'opening_date': '1997-11-16T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Anonymous Donor
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: December 4, 1995
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 368
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