Douglas Gordon
by Gordon, Douglas; Ferguson, Russell (Curated by), and Darling, Michael, et al. (Essays by), and Sylvester, David (Interview by)
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- 0262062224
- ISBN 13
- 9780262062220
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Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA: Museum of Contemporary Art; MIT Press, 2001. 183 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Published to accompany an exhibition presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif., September 16, 2001 to January 20, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This book examines the innovative work of thirty-four-year-old Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. Gordon is perhaps best known for installations that feature classic films by directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, and Martin Scorsese. In each of these works the original film has been manipulated--slowed down, mirrored by the use of split screen or dual projection, or had its soundtrack altered--to emphasize the artist's own signature themes, which include trust, guilt, madness, confession, deception, and doubling. Produced in conjunction with a survey of Gordon's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the book features essays by MOCA assistant curator Michael Darling, exhibition curator Russell Ferguson, Scottish novelist Francis McKee, and Guggenheim Museum curator Nancy Spector. Darling's essay places Gordon's work in the context of the Romantic tradition. Ferguson's essay looks at Gordon's work to date. It focuses on the issue of trust as it weaves its way from early works such as the performance/installation Trust Me, through his tattoo and instruction works, to more recent works such as Feature Film, which incorporates the Hitchcock film Vertigo. McKee compiles Gordon's literary sources into a kind of hybridized text. Spector's essay focuses on the autobiographical nature of Gordon's oeuvre, showing how he shifts between revealing details of his personal life--for example, the ongoing List of Names lists all the people he has met in a given period of time--and obscuring other aspects of his identity. Designed by the studio of Bruce Mau in close collaboration with Gordon himself, this book promises to be the definitive reference on one of today's most exciting young artists. / Russell Ferguson is Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs and Chief Curator at the University of California, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Trust Me, by Russell Ferguson; Love Triangulations, by Michael Darling; White Lies, by Francis McKee; a.k.a., by Nancy Spector; Interview with Douglas Gordon, by David Sylvester.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- Title
- Douglas Gordon
- Author
- Gordon, Douglas; Ferguson, Russell (Curated by), and Darling, Michael, et al. (Essays by), and Sylvester, David (Interview by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0262062224
- ISBN 13
- 9780262062220
- Publisher
- Museum of Contemporary Art; MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / British & Irish; European / 9. Contemporary; Film, TV, & Video / Video / Directors;
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