Douglas Gordon
Subtitle: timeline
By: Klaus Biesenbach.
Contributors: Biesenbach, Klaus Peter, 1954-; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers [distributor]
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Gordon, Douglas, -- 1966- -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Timeline.
Description: In his most well-known works, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon addresses the familiarity and popularity of moving pictures by manipulating, reframing, and superimposing them to alter viewers perceptions. His works provoke feelings of anxiety, recognition, and amnesia with respect to the circumstances of the reception of media today. This retrospective of Gordons work presents thirteen significant works by the artist, including 24 Hour Psycho (1993), Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) (1997), and Play Dead; Real Time (2003). By forcing new encounters with the familiar and confrontations with the willfully forgotten, Gordon exposes the distance between our dimmed, distorted memories and, perhaps, the truthemphatically demonstrating that what he sculpts is not only media but time itself--Description provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and index.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 11-September 4, 2006.