And While I Have Been Lying Here Perfectly Still
Saskia Olde Wolbers' videos are fantastical stories matched by equally fantastical landscapes that have the appearance of being computer generated but that actually are meticulously constructed and filmed miniature sets. The viewer continuously floats through these images being carried, as well, by the lull and hypnotic lure of the narrative voiceo …
Disassembling the Archive
A quasi-fictional correspondence with the artist Fiona Tan, this book departs from interpretations of post-colonial identity issues in her work to trace the implications of the archival housing of photographs and moving images. By way of a detour through Siegfried Kracrauer's writing on photography and Jacques Derrida's writing on the Freudian impr …
Double-Cross
How to double-cross Hollywood as an artist? This first monograph on British artist Douglas Gordon analyses all of the artist's video projection installations that are based on his appropriations of Hollywood film noir or Hitchcock films, examining Gordon's language works as well. Counter to the usual interpretations of Gordon's work as a dichotomy …
Matthew Brannon
To Say the Very Least is the first comprehensive publication on the print and installation work of New York artist Matthew Brannon. Everything takes place on the surface, or just under it, in Brannon's work, just as everything is public or takes place in public there. The prints exploit their generic relation to advertising and posters, but the ben …
Robin Collyer Photographs
To date, much of the attention on Collyer's art has been focused on his sculptural work. This is the first publication to deal extensively with Collyer's photographs, dating from 1970-98. Essays by Toronto curator Philip Monk and French art historian Catherine Grout. Texts in English and French. Designed by Hahn Smith Design.
Spirit Hunter
One cinema-architecture responds to another as the 19th 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 is the medium through which Sarah Winchester's mad …
Struggles with the Image
An indispensable consideration of Canadian art in the eighties. Monk examines the problematics of cultural production and criticism in a uniquely Canadian context.