Research Catalog

Title

Spirit hunter : Jeremy Blake's Winchester trilogy / Philip Monk.

Author

Blake, Jeremy, 1971-

Publication

Toronto : Art Gallery of York University, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Monk, Philip, 1950-
• Blake, Jeremy.
• York University (Toronto, Ont.). Art Gallery

Description

174 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

• One cinema-architecture responds to another as the nineteenth-century mansion of the heiress to the Winchester Repeating Rifle fortune haunts once again through the hallucinated images of American artist Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy. Blake's invention of a new genre of art between video and painting---video projection as time-based painting---is the medium through which Sarah Winchester's mad architectural project (constructed to appease spirits killed by her family's manufacture) transmits its ghostly inheritance. Spirit Hunter examines how its mythic haunting by violence reverberates today in America's wars.
• The book ranges widely through frontier myth, American foreign policy, technology, war, film history, psychoanalytic theory (Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok's cryptonymy), and philosophy (Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas), as it weaves art analysis into the troubled history of a social artifact. As Blake tells his story purely through images issuing as haunting from the architecture of Winchester house, Spirit Hunter pursues its speculation on the secrets Sarah Winchester shielded through her fabled mansion into the image itself to question whether she was hostage to her haunting or to national myth.

Subject

• Blake, Jeremy, 1971- > Exhibitions
• Blake, Jeremy > Exhibitions
• Winchester Mystery House (San Jose, Calif.) > In art > Exhibitions
• Video art > Exhibitions
• Computer art > Exhibitions
• Computer art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Exhibitions (note)

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of York University, May 12-June 27, 2004.

Contents

Cowboys and Indians -- Spirit hunting -- Fluid mechanics: Winchester -- Winchester storyboards -- Interior raptures: 1906 -- 1906 storyboards -- Symptomatological digression 1: The crypt -- Symptomatological digression 2: The thing -- Symptomatological digression 3: The phantom effect -- Repeating rifle: Century 21 -- Century 21 storyboards -- The face of the enemy.

ISBN

092197244X :

OCLC

• 1032667618
• SCSB-10582376

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library