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Doug Aitken: 99 Cent Dreams

Doug Aitken: 99 Cent Dreams
Library Shelf Location 18.AITK
Publication Date Jan 2008
Description Product Description This lavishly illustrated artist's book is the largest and most ambitious publication yet produced by the Los Angeles-based video artist and photographer Doug Aitken--an artist known for his groundbreaking publications. Featuring a short text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Director and Chief Curator of the Aspen Art Museum, it focuses on Aitken's still images, more than half of which have never been reproduced before. Known primarily for his multi-screen video installations, Aitken has gained international recognition for his immersive explorations of the experience of time and location. His exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum was the first dedicated solely to his photography. From nighttime cityscapes to deserted gas stations, airports and bus depots, Aitken's dreamlike photographs contain the same spatial and temporal dislocation and narrative suggestion as his installations. About the Artist Doug Aitken (b. 1968) has created a body of work that explores the evolving ways people experience memory and narrative and relate to fast-paced urban environments. During the past decade, the artist has created innovative contemporary video art by fracturing the narrative structures of his films across multi-screen environments. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York (which commissioned a large-scale outdoor video installation--the first of its kind at the venerable institution), and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 1999 he was awarded the International Prize at the Venice Biennale, and in 2000 he won the Aldrich Award.
ISBN 9780934324373
Quantity 1
Pages 216 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 31 cm
Author Heidi Z Jacobson
Format Hardback
Publisher Aspen Art Museum, New York
Related Artist Doug Aitken
Categories Photography, Artist (relating to a single artist/collaborative team)
Keywords Narrative, Memory
Artist's Nationality American (USA)
Language English

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