Doug Aitken
Subtitle: electric earth
By: organized by Philippe Vergne ; essays by Joseph Grima, Anna Katz, Norman M. Klein, Glenn D. Lowry, Philippe Vergne
Contributors: Aitken, Doug, 1968- artist; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9783791355696
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Electric earth
Description: Accompanying the artists first full-scale survey exhibition, this generously illustrated book explores Doug Aitkens 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 Aitkens 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 books 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.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 10, 2016-January 15, 2017, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, May 27-September 24, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: You are here and so am I / Philippe Vergne; title: Doug Aitken, mapmaker / Anna Katz; title: From Sleepwalkers to Station to station : inverting the museum / Glenn D. Lowry; title: An architecture for the now / Joseph Grima; title: A granular history of space : Doug Aitken / Norman M. Klein.