Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken

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Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0847838323

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The most comprehensive book to date on the innovative multimedia artist Doug Aitken. Defying definitions of genre, Doug Aitken has explored every medium, from architecture and film to installations and interventions. While Aitken’s work varies in both theme and context, his installations share a common thread in their ability to use technology to evoke meaningful personal reactions from the viewer, encourage audience interaction, and inspire communal gatherings. His films often explore themes of displacement and temporality, and through his keen awareness of motion, sound, and color he creates dreamlike landscapes and the futurist aesthetic for which he has become known. This beautifully designed book features visual essays by the artist and surveys his work in all mediums. The monograph is organized thematically into the four most prevalent ideas connected with his work, inspires thought, and will leave readers examining their own relationship to the world around them.

Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780870700453

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Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry and Anne Pasternak. Text by Klaus Biesenbach, Peter Eleey, Doug Aitken.

Broken Screen
Broken Screen

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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To the Chinese people, jade is a precious stone endowed with magical properties which encapsulated all that mankind aspires to in terms of character, elegance, tranquility, purity and virtue. The Chinese love jade not merely because of its rarity or its luster but because of a deeper aesthetic value. Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China presents a comprehensive view of jade and its history in China from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty. It illustrates pieces of jade that are on display not only in the Palace Museum in Beijing but in the many provincial and other museums across China. It will help the reader to understand what jade means to the Chinese in China; how it is classified and described and where it is found and worked and displayed. It has a value beyond that of a simple catalogue and places jade in its natural, and central, cultural context.

Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken

Author: Rachel Kent

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781760761981

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Art is one of the tools we have to sculpt time and create experiences that are highly concentrated, or open and infinite. - Doug Aitken American artist Doug Aitken is internationally recognised for his ambitious practice that incorporates objects, installations, photographs and vast, multi-screen environments that envelop viewers within a kaleidoscope of moving imagery and sound. Aitken has realised museum projects around the world, as well as monumental interventions within the natural landscape and below the ocean's surface. This beautifully designed book encompasses the breadth of Aitken's artistic practice and is produced on the occasion of his survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia. Edited by chief curator Rachel Kent, it features a series of in-depth interviews that provide fascinating insights into Aitken's creative thinking and his wider engagement with the creative communities around him; and a series of image plates documenting his acclaimed museum works, landscape interventions and live happenings. Informative and visually compelling, it is sure to be a favourite among Aitken's collectors, as well as those interested in contemporary art.

Song 1
Song 1

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780978906320

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This fully illustrated artist book, published in conjunction with Doug Aitken: song 1, includes essays by Kerry Brougher, the Hirshhorn’s Deputy Director and Chief Curator and the organizing curator; Barney Hoskyns, author of such books as Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, and Weird Scenes & the Sound of Los Angeles, and Dean Kuipers, an editor at the Los Angeles Times and a longtime writer on music.

Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher: Aspen Art Museum

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780934324373

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Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

Alpha
Alpha

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher: Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9783905701111

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"I became restless with the flat surface of the screen so the work gradually evolved into the rest of the space," says Doug Aitken of his multichannel film work. Lately he has been projecting from multiple points onto a single structure. And he has turned from wide-open and lonely landscapes (Electric Earth, Diamond Sea) to wide-open and lonely people (new skin). The protagonist of the surreal "Alpha, " played by cult actor Udo Kier is both: as he travels, he dematerializes and becomes the space that he inhabits. Luckily for readers, Aitken is as bored with the square shape of the conventional book as he is with the conventional screen: this collection of "Alpha" images, accompanied by text from the artist, is bound in the shape of a head in profile.

Station to Station
Station to Station

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher: Prestel

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791354545

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"For 30 days this summer, Doug Aitken's project Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, takes over the Barbican Centre with more than 100 free events over 30 days, with special ticketed events every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This 'living exhibition', brings together a fusion of leading international and UK-based artists from the world of contemporary art, music, dance, graphic design and film in a jam-packed programme." -- Barbican website.

Black Mirror
Black Mirror

Author: Doug Aitken

Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789609931427

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Doug Aitken's Black Mirror is a meditation on the rootlessness and the extreme virtuality of contemporary existence. Comprised of a site-specific multi-channel video installation and a live theater performance at the Deste Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, on the Greek island of Hydra, it stars Chloë Sevigny as a nomadic individual traversing airport terminals, hotel lobbies and car rental kiosks, communicating in quick pulses and travelling long distances for short meetings. The video installation was shot in and around Athens and Hydra, as well as Cancun, Mexico; Albuquerque and Gallup, New Mexico; Flagstaff and Arcosanti, Arizona; and Palm Springs, California. The performance was staged on a barge off Athens, and featured Sevigny, gospel singers, strippers and musicians, Los Angeles underground rock duo No Age and Greek percussionists.

I Am a Bullet
I Am a Bullet

Author: Dean Kuipers

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780609604090

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I Am A Bullet is about people transformed by an accelerating world. These stunning essays combine on-site research and penetrating images as they investigate unique individuals in raw and open engagement with speed. From the literal velocity of breaking the sound barrier in a car to the consumerist purity of Tokyo youth to the violence of Native American gangs, this book delivers an essential understanding of how the speed of change is shaping your life right now--and tomorrow.