Double-Cross: the Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon

Name: Double-Cross: the Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon
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ISBN: 9780921047964

ISBN-10: 0921047967

ISBN-13: 9780921047964

Edition: 2003

Authors: Douglas Gordon, Philip Monk, Power Plant Art Gallery Staff

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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 between good and evil, Double-Crossargues that his work is all about dissemblance, with the dichotomy only one deception among others. It also argues that, with the inaugural separation of the components of sound and image in his work, one of the artist's disguises is that of an author. All the fragments of the artist's work--projections, language…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Power Plant, The
Publication date: 3/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.32" wide x 7.68" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Philip Monk is the Director/Curator at the Art Gallery of York University.