  
The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkDouglas Gordon: TimelineEssay by Klaus Biesenbach.
Throughout his career, Douglas Gordon has engaged in an ongoing reflection on the motion picture, examining the relationship between the movies and our common knowledge and perception of them. In altering, monumentalizing, and alienating our collective understanding of film, he visualizes, pictures, and "sculpts" time. Douglas Gordon, which was organized by MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach, collects images and texts from the past 40 years (a nod to Gordon's birth date of 1966), all of which deal with ideas of visual memory, shared visual knowledge, and the interwoven texture of imagined and remembered sounds and images. It explores the relationship between film and psychoanalysis, and the way in which these systems of thought have affected the idea of individual biography: Gordon is acutely attuned to the relation of such deep experiences as love, longing, loss, and trauma to what one feels while watching film. He understands how films refer to other films, how they superimpose themselves upon each other and upon their viewers' memories, and how, through their ubiquity and accessibility, films express and represent the ideals and fears of their times. Essay by Klaus Biesenbach.PUBLISHED BY:The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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FORMAT:Hardcover, 12.75 x 9.75 in. / 304 pgs / 334 color.
ISBN: 9780870703904 ISBN10: 0870703900
PUBLICATION DATE:06/01/2006
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Art Gallery of York University/The Power PlantDouble-Cross: The Hollywood Films Of Douglas GordonEssay by Philip Monk.
How to double-cross Hollywood as an artist? This first monograph on British artist Douglas Gordon analyses all of the artist's video projection installations that are based on his appropriations of Hollywood film noir or Hitchcock films, examining Gordon's language works as well. Counter to the usual interpretations of Gordon's work as a dichotomy between good and evil, Double-Cross argues that his work is all about dissemblance, with the dichotomy only one deception among others. It also argues that, with the inaugural separation of the components of sound and image in his work, one of the artist's disguises is that of an author. All the fragments of the artist's work--projections, language works, photography--add up to the production of a criminal author. His final disguise is that of an experimental filmmaker whose subject is not the film noir themes of trust, guilt, fate, and the madness of the double that appear as the content of his work, but the temporality of the spectator's engagement.PUBLISHED BY:Art Gallery of York University/The Power Plant
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FORMAT:Paperback, 5 x 7.5 in. / 272 pgs / 64 color.
ISBN: 9780921047964 ISBN10: 0921047967
PUBLICATION DATE:03/02/2004
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NAi PublishersDouglas Gordon: KidnappingArtwork by Douglas Gordon. Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel. Text by Jan Debbaut, Francis McKee.
PUBLISHED BY:NAi Publishers
LIST PRICE: US $49.95 CAD $60.00
FORMAT:Hardcover, 8.6 x 10.2 in. / 128 pgs / 32 color / 32 b&w
ISBN: 9789070149659 ISBN10: 9070149656
PUBLICATION DATE:12/02/1998
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