Doug Aitken : Electric earth / organized by Philippe Vergne ; essays by Joseph Grima, Anna Katz, Norman M. Klein, Glenn D. Lowry, Philippe Vergne

Additional Titles: Electric earth
Published: Los Angeles : The Museum of Contemporary Art ; New York : DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Physical Description: 261 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Additional Creators: Vergne, Philippe, Grima, Joseph, Katz, Anna, Klein, Norman M., 1945-, Lowry, Glenn D., Aitken, Doug, 1968-, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

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Contents

You are here and so am I / Philippe Vergne -- Doug Aitken, mapmaker / Anna Katz -- From Sleepwalkers to Station to station : inverting the museum / Glenn D. Lowry -- An architecture for the now / Joseph Grima -- A granular history of space : Doug Aitken / Norman M. Klein.

Summary

Accompanying the artist’s first full-scale survey exhibition, this generously illustrated book explores Doug Aitken’s work across mediums, disciplines, and themes. From photography to architecture, and from video to spoken word, Doug Aitken has delved into a variety of art forms to create a provocative body of work. This volume surveys the full scope and depth of Aitken’s work: sound pieces, sculpture, architectural experiments, land art and happenings, which embrace a collaborative spirit across disciplines and beyond walls, to re-imagine the nature of what a work of art can be. Interspersed with hundreds of color illustrations, the book’s essays examine the plethora of ideas the artist tackles from environmental decay to the end of linear time and explain how and why Aitken challenges many artistic barriers.

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ISBN

9783791355696 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
3791355694 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 20, 2016-January 15, 2017, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, May 27-September 24, 2017.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

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