James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the most important                  artists of visual postmodernism. His work has transformed critical debates about the                  status of the image in contemporary culture and influenced an entire generation of                  younger artists in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged. Until recently,                  Coleman has enjoyed relatively little critical attention--in part because of his                  refusal to comment on his projects or to allow his work to be reconstructed outside                  of the context of its exhibition.The illustrated essays in this book span the                  entirety of Coleman's career to date, from his early postminimal and conceptual                  experiments with memory and perception, through his work in film, video, and                  narrative in the 1980s, to his current ongoing series of slide projections with                  voice-over that he calls simply "projected images." Reflecting the interdisciplinary                  nature of the debates induced by Coleman's work, the essays discuss issues of                  subjectivity and identity, nationalism, postcolonialism, memory, spectacle culture,                  digitalization, and new media. The contributors are Raymond Bellour, Benjamin                  Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Jean Fisher, Luke Gibbons, Rosalind Krauss, Anne Rorimer, and                  Kaja Silverman. Written by curators, critics, and scholars and spanning the fields                  of art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and film theory, the essays attest                  to the interdisciplinary challenge of Coleman's work.

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