Research Catalog

Danh Vo : take my breath away

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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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
Subjects
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.
ISBN
  • 9780892075393
  • 0892075392
LCCN
2017051716
OCLC
  • on1008765973
  • SCSB-8996773
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library