Doug Aitken : Electric earth / organized by Philippe Vergne ; essays by Joseph Grima, Anna Katz, Norman M. Klein, Glenn D. Lowry, Philippe Vergne.

Accompanying the artist’s first full-scale survey exhibition, this generously illustrated book explores Doug Aitken’s work across mediums, disciplines, and themes. From photography to architecture, and from video to spoken word, Doug Aitken has delved into a variety of art forms to create a provocat...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (Organizer, Host institution)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Host institution)
Other Authors: Vergne, Philippe (Editor, Contributor)
Grima, Joseph (Contributor)
Katz, Anna (Contributor)
Klein, Norman M., 1945- (Contributor)
Lowry, Glenn D. (Contributor)
Aitken, Doug, 1968- (Artist)
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : New York : The Museum of Contemporary Art ; DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
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Physical Description:261 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Variant Title:
Electric earth
Format: Book
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Accompanying the artist’s first full-scale survey exhibition, this generously illustrated book explores Doug Aitken’s work across mediums, disciplines, and themes. From photography to architecture, and from video to spoken word, Doug Aitken has delved into a variety of art forms to create a provocative body of work. This volume surveys the full scope and depth of Aitken’s work: sound pieces, sculpture, architectural experiments, land art and happenings, which embrace a collaborative spirit across disciplines and beyond walls, to re-imagine the nature of what a work of art can be. Interspersed with hundreds of color illustrations, the book’s essays examine the plethora of ideas the artist tackles from environmental decay to the end of linear time and explain how and why Aitken challenges many artistic barriers.
Note:Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 20, 2016-January 15, 2017, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, May 27-September 24, 2017.
Call Number:N6537.A4 A4 2016
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783791355696
3791355694