The young Scottish artist Douglas Gordon is currently among the most talked-about on the international scene. The first book on Gordon and his work includes extensive interviews with the artist, and features over sixty images of his art. The variety of Gordon's output has included large film installations and smaller works in which he makes use of found footage, text, photography, etc. To Gordon, ambiguity "is a positive state", and much of his art seeks to "construct self-destructive systems". The richly patterned text ...
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The young Scottish artist Douglas Gordon is currently among the most talked-about on the international scene. The first book on Gordon and his work includes extensive interviews with the artist, and features over sixty images of his art. The variety of Gordon's output has included large film installations and smaller works in which he makes use of found footage, text, photography, etc. To Gordon, ambiguity "is a positive state", and much of his art seeks to "construct self-destructive systems". The richly patterned text featured in this publication is an extract of various conversations between Douglas Gordon and Jan Debbaut, the director of Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum. The intensive discussions are annotated by Francis McKee, the director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, so that the end result is a highly dynamic textual interplay of voices, sources, and subjects.
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1200grams, ISBN: 9789070149659.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth-covered boards with title debossed on cover; with printed dust jacket. Video and text by Douglas Gordon. Conversation with the artist by Jan Debbaut, annotated by Francis McKee. Essays by David Gordon, Thomas Lawson and Russell Ferguson. Includes a list of works, a biography, exhibition history and a bibliography. 200 pp., with four-color plates throughout. 10-1/2 x 9 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum. Near Fine (light foxing to the end papers, else Fine), in Near Fine dust jacket (pronounced sunning to the spine, foxing to the interior).
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VG/VG-light corner and edge wear to dust jacket. Navy cloth boards with stamped lettering. Red dust jacket with black and white lettering. 199 pp. BW and color illustrations. "This publication is the first to present a major survey of the works and ideas of Scottish artists Douglas Gordon (1966). Since 1990 Gordon has made incisive and compelling works on the subjects of memory, perception, and interpretation."-Jacket.
