Christopher Phillips

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STAN DOUGLAS: MIDCENTURY STUDIO
Edited by Tommy Simoens. Text by Christopher Phillips, Pablo Sigg.
LUDION
ISBN: 9789055448791 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2011
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SHANGHAI KALEIDOSCOPE
Text by Christopher Phillips.
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM OF ART
ISBN: 9780888544605 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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REAL GONE
Photographs by Jack Pierson. Text by Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips.
ARTSPACE BOOKS
ISBN: 9780963109521 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 5/2/1994
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VOICES
Contributions by Guy Rosolato. Text by Kate Linker, Christopher Phillips.
WITTE DE WITH PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789073362390 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 2/2/1999
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JOSEPH BEUYS: ARENA
Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Text by Pamela Kort, Christopher Phillips.
DIA ART FOUNDATION
ISBN: 9780944521298 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 3/2/1994
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Christopher Phillips

Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio

Edited by Tommy Simoens. Text by Christopher Phillips, Pablo Sigg.
Published by Ludion

Vancouver photographer and video artist Stan Douglas (born 1960) has been celebrated since the late 1980s for his politically freighted retrievals of obsolete technologies and failed utopias. The emphatically narrative character of his films and photographs has made for comparisons with his Vancouver contemporary Jeff Wall, but Douglas also laces his work with a literary engagement, in references to works by Proust, Beckett and other writers. Midcentury Studio sees Douglas pursue a new direction. It chronicles the burgeoning discipline of press photography in North America during the postwar period, for which Douglas assumes the role of a fictional photographer, creating a series of images hypothetically produced between 1945-1951. Douglas constructed a “mid-century studio” using authentic equipment as well as actors to produce carefully staged, black-and-white photographs that painstakingly emulate the period's obsession with crime scenes, dance, gambling and technology. This volume juxtaposes actual photographs from the era with Douglas' superb photo-fictions.

Shanghai Kaleidoscope

Text by Christopher Phillips.
Published by Royal Ontario Museum of Art

This oversize study of Shanghai's creative culture presents an adventurous mix of architectural models, digital simulations, designer fashion apparel, drawings, runway videos, paintings, photo-works and video installations by the city's leading contemporary artists. Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography in New York and editor of this volume, writes in his introduction, Since the early 1990s, Shanghai has been at the forefront of China's historic national resurgence. During that time, it has become one of the world's most frenetic and fascinating cities. With a population now approaching 20 million, it is an urban colossus--China's largest and most densely populated city. For well over a decade, it has exhibited the fastest economic growth of any of the global megacities, averaging around 15 percent growth annually. Shanghai's burgeoning prosperity can be charted in the city's spectacular skyline, which is now crowded with more than 4,000 buildings in excess of 20 stories--double the number of New York City--with at least 1,000 more still to come.

Voices

Contributions by Guy Rosolato. Text by Kate Linker, Christopher Phillips.
Published by Witte de With Publishers

Joseph Beuys: Arena

Where would I have got if I had been intelligent!

Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Text by Pamela Kort, Christopher Phillips.
Published by DIA ART FOUNDATION

Arena is a major but rarely exhibited Beuys work that consists of 100 panels containing several hundred photographs of Beuys, spanning the artist's career from the late 40s to 1972. Realized in 1973, "Arena" attains a monumental scale and the sort of grand design appropriate to an artistic summa; as such, the project amounts to a broad portrait of Beuys' artistic persona. It is here documented for the first time.

Real Gone

Photographs by Jack Pierson & Fiction by Jim Lewis

Photographs by Jack Pierson. Text by Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips.
Published by Artspace Books

This tale of a crazy road trip pairs Pierson's seductive photographs with Lewis's free-floating reflections on the city as a magnet for high rollers and drifters of all stripes.