52 Items, 1 booklet, 47 pages : includes illustrations + 49 postcards + box, 15 cm
Quantity
Creator
Spector, Nancy
Creator
Gordon, Douglas, 1966-
Creator
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Creator
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Language
English
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Technical
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, July 16-October 9, 2005. Includes essay,
The Search for eternal youth, or, How Douglas Gordon became an artist by Nancy Spector.
Description
Douglas Gordon is an inveterate storyteller. The fictions that he weaves extends outward from the objects of his art--film,
video, sound installations, photographs and text works--to encompass his own artistic persona. Douglas Gordon's Vanity of
Allegory, an exhibition conceived specifically for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, explores the notion of the veiled self-portrait
as an art-historical trope, a literary device and a cinematic strategy while it examines the intersection of vanitas as a
meditation on the ephemeral nature of life itself, and a ploy to remain immortal. For Douglas Gordon's Vanity of Allegory,
Gordon turned to the history of art for source material. His installation includes loans from the Guggenheim and private collections,
as well as examples of his own work and that of his peers. By combining historical and contemporary art and film, Gordon has
created a visual collage that narrates issues of self-representation and double identity. This catalogue illustrates each
object in the show along with Gordon's rationale for its inclusion. -- Publisher's description.
