Research Catalog

Title

Doug Aitken : A-Z book (fractals) / [design by Doug Aitken and Edward Taylor].

Author

Aitken, Doug, 1968-

Publication

Ostfildern-ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fabric Workshop and Museum.
• Kunsthalle Zürich

Description

ca. 128 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 34 cm.

Summary

A, B, C, D, E ... In this new, experimental volume of the work of artist Doug Aitken, the alphabet serves as an underlying organizational structure, a map which readers can turn to as a guide for moving through the book's images and texts. Combining a selection of new and older artwork alongside diverse texts, this book juxtaposes seemingly unrelated elements, creating shifting relationships and patterns that emerge only with time. On the visual side, the book offers a selection of past work, new photography, images from recent video pieces - such as "Interiors", "New Ocean" and "New Skin" - and a new series of collages. On the verbal side are an essay by noted architecture and design scholar Michael Speaks, excerpts from a conversation between Aitken and curator Russel Ferguson, a short story by artist Philippe Parreno, a series of short entries written by Aitken, and excerpts from a conversation between Aitken and Dan Kish, a blind man working at the Braille Institute on Los Angeles on echo location.

Alternative Title

A-Z book (fractals)

Subject

• Aitken, Doug, 1968- > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art)
• Video art

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Doug Aitken: Interiors" (September 20 - January 11, 2003) at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia and "Doug Aitken" (June 15 - August 10, 2003) at the Kunsthalle Zürich.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Doug Aitken's temporal ecology of images / by Michael Speaks -- Underground man ; after a short story by Gabriel de Tarde / by Philippe Parreno.

ISBN

3775712917 (hd. bd.)

OCLC

• 52217085
• SCSB-10450800

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library