Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
10 October 2013
Thomas Demand: Models of Perception
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Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs :1940's - 1970's
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1958
Thompson with school and Hudson's Bay Company Store, Manitoba
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs :1940's - 1970's
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Port-Arthur, Ontario
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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1954
Port-Arthur, Ontario
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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1959
Bloor Street Buildings in immediate foreground, Toronto, Ontario
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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1972
Business area. Toronto, Ontario
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Saint John, New Brunswick
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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1959
Saint John, New Brunswick
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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Prospect, Nova Scotia
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs :1940's - 1970's
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1959
Prospect, Nova Scotia
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Photograph from the series : Canada - Cities/Environs: 1940's - 1970's
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1959
Fredericton and Saint John River, New Brunswick
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Journeys and translation
Cucumber, Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment, Lev Bratishenko
26 February 2016
Journeys and translation
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Panorama des environs de Paris provenant de l'album "La Tour Eiffel" sur l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
Juillet 1889
Carte des environs de Paris intitulée "Ce qu'on peut voir de la Tour Eiffel" et "D'où l'on peut voir la Tour Eiffel"
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Panorama des environs de Paris provenant de l'album "La Tour Eiffel" sur l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889