{"product_id":"thomas-ruff-modernism","title":"Thomas Ruff: Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe work of Thomas Ruff marks a paradigm change in photography: systematically and on an impressive level of aesthetic quality, the artist has for more than three decades been subjecting the medium of photography to a modernist analysis by introducing several formal innovations. One by one, Ruff has teased out basic parameters of the medium and their aesthetic interdependencies, taking photography beyond well-trodden paths. It’s all the more remarkable, then, that exhibitions and the literature to date have tended to neglect these circumstances: up to now, the artist’s work has repeatedly been presented and discussed exclusively in terms of its content and media-critical aspects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe present examination by collector Markus Kramer focuses instead for the first time on the unique pictorial vocabulary Thomas Ruff has developed, which with its powerful and complex aesthetic demonstrates – while consistently reflecting on its medium – how the use of photography can be freed from its traditional patterns of application.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"3rd Party","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53770766647659,"sku":"9783868282641","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0435\/8917\/3409\/files\/kh045_458.jpg?v=1787757242","url":"https:\/\/cart.davidzwirner.com\/products\/thomas-ruff-modernism","provider":"David Zwirner Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}