Michael Newman

Las transparencias de gran formato de Jeff Wall, realizadas en cibachrome y montadas sobre cajas de luz , han ejercido una gran influencia en las últimas tres décadas. Un periodo en el que el modo de concebir la relacion entre arte e historia ha experimentado un profundo cambio. Es uno de los ultimos artistas que trabaja a partir de una vision lineal de la historia, para luego replantearse la relacion de su obra con la misma, en un mundo donde esa perspectiva historica ha dejado de ser sostenible. Las composiciones de Wall, tanto en color como en blanco y negro , mantienen un dialogo constante con la pintura de genero del siglo XIX, lo que le convierte sin lugar a dudas en un pintor de la vida moderna, segun la expresion de Charles Baudelaire. Ademas de un profundo ensayo de Michael Newman, este libro reproduce la obra completa de Jeff Wall hasta la actualidad y recoge sus principales escritos sobre la experiencia creativa de otros importantes artistas contemporaneos.

An alien ship crashed into Alaskas Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the iceuntil glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day.Kai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has taken charge. But not before something escaped through a breach in the hull.Meanwhile, a pair of Alaska state troopers locate a missing Amazon driver fifteen miles away on the Juneau Icefield and trace his movements to a nearby village with a population of less than fifty. Arriving in town, they are greeted by the bodies of villagers who were killed in an impossible, horrific way.Thousands of miles away, under a remote archaeological find in Pakistan, the Ninea team of superbeings placed on Earth a million years ago by intergalactic colonizers that seeded our planet to create human lifeare lifted from their long slumber. The kind of threat theyve been waiting for has finally come.The Nine find unexpected allies culled from the ancient history of their home world in the form of a teenage boy and godlike entity. All this leads to a confrontation on a volcanic island that will determine the fate of civilization, even as the Nine uncover the shattering truth behind their own tragic paths and learn of a much greater battle to come.Will they be enough to stem the apocalyptic menace threatening all of mankind?