Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon was born 1966 BirthGlasgow, Scotland.
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Douglas Gordon’s work epitomises a new fluidity which has developed between video and film in contemporary art. Using both original and appropriated footage, often in the form of video installations, his work explores themes such as temptation and fear, life and death, good and evil and guilt and innocence…
His aim has been to tempt viewers into becoming more aware of the shifting subjectivity of their perception of the world. He is particularly concerned with the viewer’s psychological relationship with the moving image…Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1966.
Douglas Gordon traces his interest in film as transmitted through television to the childhood days of living with a large family in a not-too-large apartment. The television was in the parents’ combined bed and living-room…
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In his most well-known works, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon (b. 1966) addresses the familiarity and popularity of moving pictures by manipulating, reframing, and superimposing them to alter viewers’ perceptions. His works provoke feelings of anxiety, recognition, and amnesia with respect to the circumstances of the reception of media today…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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