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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.92
EAN num: 9780714839899
ISBN number: 0714839892
Label: Phaidon Press
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 160
Printing Date: September 13, 2001
Publishing house: Phaidon Press
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Doug Aitken is a young Californian video and installation artist who has risen to international prominence with works such as his multi-screen video environment 'electric earth'. Aitken's subjects explore the deserted spaces of Bollywood film sets in India; Jonestown, Guyana, the site of the notorious mass suicide of religious cultists; and a remote diamond-mining region of Namibia, closed to outsiders since 1908. His environments are vivid, elusive and dreamlike. This monograph explores the artist and his work. It features a discusion of Aitken's working methods by Amanda Sharp; an examination of Aitken's art within the context of contemporary philosophy and the work of other artists who have explored expanded notions of time and space; a study by Jorg Heiser of Aitken's 'i am in you', a five-screen work centring on the imaginative experiences of a young girl; 'Artist's Choice', for which the artist has selected a short story, 'Funes the Memorious', by Jorge Luis Borges, whose description of altered realities through the distortions of mirrors and memory echoes the artist's own interests; and 'Artist's Writings' - Doug Aitken's writings include his retelling of an unusual story he once heard from strangers he met in the desert and which served as the basis for a subsequent work.
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