David Rimanelli
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Framing the Shot
There is nothing unique or even special about the phenomenon of artists who write with distinction about art generally and their own practices in particular. History provides numerous examples—Leonardo's great notebooks, Reynolds's Discourses, Vasari's Lives, and Delacroix's journals and letters among them. The twentieth century, with its enthusiasm for manifestos and credos, proves almost embarrassingly rich in this regard, from Gleizes and Metzinger to Peter Halley. But the publication of Jeff Wall's Selected Essays and Interviews by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on the occasion of the
