Stan Douglas

by Christ, Hans

• ISBN13: 9783775720212
• ISBN10: 3775720219
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg

Summary

This volume assembles a range of photography and 14 moving-image pieces from the course of Stan Douglas's career. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, born in Vancouver in 1960, the book is arranged according to different potential readings of Douglas's work and his interpretations of history, film and music. The artworks are redolent with allusions to the suppressed and the failed, lost Modernist utopias from the autonomous subject to government housing. For example, Le Detroitlooks at the "haunted castle" in its modern variant, the project high-rise. Pursuit, Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin B.C.refers to silent film and the mechanical piano; Win, Place or Showcrosses 1950s home decor with 1960s television; and Eveningtraces the inception of infotainment in the outgoing 1960s. Douglas is represented in New York by David Zwirner gallery. His work was recently exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum, Harlem.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Specters of Douglas	p. 8
Remakre, Readymade, Reconfiguration: Film as Metahistory	p. 30
Stan Douglas's Suspiria: Genealogies of Recombinant Narrativity	p. 42
Re-: Killing Time	p. 54
Our (Imperfect) Man in Havana	p. 94
History Art: Nu*tka*, 1996	p. 112
Giving Form to Absence	p. 124
Iris into Black: Stan Douglas	p. 142
Stan Douglas's Clear and Present Strangeness	p. 154
At the Right Place: The Films of Stan Douglas in the Museum	p. 174
Descriptions of Installations	p. 186
Stan Douglas Biography and Exhibitions	p. 214
List of Contributors	p. 215
Works in the Exhibition	p. 217
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