This study of Don Giovanni, alias Don Juan, includes work from 15 contemporary artists working in video, including Tracey Moffatt, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm and Sam Taylor-Wood. As E. T. A. Hoffmann would have it, Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is the "opera of operas"--but who is the Don, and what contemporary relevance does his breathtaking lifestyle have? Sometimes an unscrupulous hedonist, and then again a weak man overwhelmed by desire and despair, he generates a dazzling variety of roles and identities. In the end, ...
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This study of Don Giovanni, alias Don Juan, includes work from 15 contemporary artists working in video, including Tracey Moffatt, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm and Sam Taylor-Wood. As E. T. A. Hoffmann would have it, Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is the "opera of operas"--but who is the Don, and what contemporary relevance does his breathtaking lifestyle have? Sometimes an unscrupulous hedonist, and then again a weak man overwhelmed by desire and despair, he generates a dazzling variety of roles and identities. In the end, everything, even feeling, is exposed as a masquerade, but still he says, "Lust is the only deception that I wish permanence." Images are accompanied by Elfriede Jelinek's radio play "Jackie" and by interviews with filmmaker Michael Haneke and composer Olga Neuwirth, all in accordance with the motto "Seduce and be seduced, view and be viewed."
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Near Fine. No Jacket (As Issued) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Slight rubbing to covers (boards; chiefly to lower edges); else a near fine copy internally. 144 pages. Catalogue of the exhibition (related to the famed seducer of women in his various literary and artistic incarnations), titled 'Don Juan alias Don Giovanni', held at the Kunsthalle Wien, March-April 2006; focus is on the Ursula Blickle Stiftung. Foreword by Matt; texts by Peter Handke and several others (including artist's statements); artist's biographical sketches; filmography and bibliographical references. Over 60 Color Photographs; Title Page (red/black).
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New. 3938821361. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 144 pp.; 98 illus. --with a bonus offer--