Didier Semin, curator at the Centre Georges Pompidou and author of important texts on modern and contemporary artists, follows Boltanski's work from the fictional autobiographies through to recent installations in the context of cultural and art historical developments in post-war France. Boltanski discusses his work and the role of the artist with art historian Tamar Garb, author of Sisters of the Brush (Yale University Press, 1994) and co-editor of The Jew in the Text (Thames and Hudson, 1995). Donald Kuspit, contributing editor to Artforum, focuses on Monument : The Children of Dijon, a work which consists of dozens of eerily lit, anonymous, black-and-white photographs of children long since lost to adulthood. Boltanski has chosen texts by master postmodern novelist Georges Perec written in an inventory-like style which mirrors that of the artist. The book also features a selection of Boltanski's own writings, a beguiling and provocative blend of truth and fiction. A PAL standard video of Christian Boltanski in conversation with Melvyn Bragg is available from Phaidon Press.