Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist known for being preoccupied with themes of death, memory, and loss. Although he has often incorporated aspects of his own past into his works, he had not dwelt on them at such length or in such detail until he agreed to sit down with art historian Catherine Grenier for a series of weekly interviews taking place over the course of a year. Those conversations, in which Boltanski reflects on his life and his works, are transcribed and translated here. Writer Luc Sante provides the foreword. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Text by Christian Boltanski, Catherine Grenier. Preface by Luc Sante.
