Research Catalog

Title

Danh Vo : take my breath away / Katherine Brinson.

Author

Vo, Danh, 1975-

Publication

• New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brinson, Katherine
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, organizer, host institution
• Statens museum for kunst (Denmark), host institution

Description

liv, 267, cclxix-cclxxxiv pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

Danh Vo's conceptual, installation-based practice dissects the cultural forces and private desires that shape our experience of the world. He often employs found objects, images and texts to animate personal narratives that refract global political histories. Published to accompany the most comprehensive museum survey to date of the Danish artist's work, this catalog presents for the first time an illuminating overview of Vo's work from the past 15 years. Organized around nearly 30 major projects and installations, the volume ranges from Vo's early performative works such as Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2003), in which he married and divorced acquaintances in order to add their surnames to his own, to his recent sculptural hybrids of classical and Christian statuary. A lead essay by Katherine Brinson probes the artist's roving, research-based process in which historical study, fortuitous encounters and personal relationships are woven into psychologically potent tableaux. Significant recurring subjects include the legacy of colonialism and the fraught status of the refugee, as well as the image of the United States in its own collective imagination and in that of the world.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Take my breath away

Subject

• Vo, Danh, 1975- > Exhibitions
• Vo, Danh, 1975- > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Vo, Danh, 1975-
• Themes, motives

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition ... organized by Katherine Brinson with Susan Thompson. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 9-May 9, 2018. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, August 30-December 2, 2018."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 18-471

ISBN

• 9780892075393
• 0892075392

LCCN

2017051716

OCLC

1008765973

Author

Vo, Danh, 1975- artist.

Title

Danh Vo : take my breath away / Katherine Brinson.

Publisher

New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Brinson, Katherine. Little or nothing but life.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, organizer, host institution.

Statens museum for kunst (Denmark), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-471