Stan Douglas

by Thater, Diana; Watson, Scott; Clover, Carol J

• ISBN13: 9780714837963
• ISBN10: 0714837962
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-30
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Canadian artist Stan Douglas combines traditional cinematic techniques withew technologies to produce remarkable video installations. These visuallyomplex works often look critically at the history of television, video andilm, and can result in dramatic contemporary portraits as well as sereneandscape imagery.;From his early brief dramas for television, depictingncanny, David Lynch-like suburban encounters, to his spectaculararge-screen recent installation, "Der Sandmann", exploring childhood traumand repressed memory, Douglas's work is layered with the artist'sbservations on social and racial alienation and psychic states.;Featured inwo documents and nominated for the Hugo Boss/ Guggenheim prize in 1997,ouglas has recently emerged as an international figure. Canadian curator andritic Scott Watson surveys the artist's work in relation toate-20th-century aesthetics, politics and psychoanalysis. Video installationrtist Diana Thater discusses the artist's working process and themes in thenterviews and Carol J. Clover, film theorist and mythology scholar, analyzes

Author Biography

Scott Watson is Director of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has written extensively on contemporary art for journals in Canada and Europe. In 1992, he curated and edited Stan Douglas' first major solo exhibition and catalogue, Monodramas and Loops.

Diana Thater is an American artist who works in video installation. Her work has been the subject of major solo shows at the Walker Art Center, Kunsthalle Basel, and The Museum of Modern Art. She has also exhibited in the Whitney Biennial (1995 and 1997) and Skulptur Projecte in Münster (1997).

Carol J. Clover is Professor of Rhetoric (Department of Film) and Scandinavian (Department of Medieval Studies) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her published studies on film include Men, Women and Chain Saws (1992).