Stan Douglas: Mise en Scène
Edited by León Krempel
The most comprehensive book available on one of today’s most important visual artists, this volume features images from Stan Douglas’s acclaimed series as well as stills from a new video work and a stage production.
Stan Douglas is one of Canada’s leading filmmakers and installation artists. His work, which has been widely exhibited throughout the world and at three Venice Biennales, touches on themes of modernism, politics, race, music, cinema, and theater. This book features a wide selection of works from Douglas’s most recent series, including Crowds and Riots (2008), Interiors (2009-2010), Midcentury Studio (2010-2011), and Disco Angola (2012). It also includes images from two much-anticipated works: a new video piece and Helen Lawrence, a cinematic stage production. A series of essays discussing Douglas’s influences and themes as well as texts by the artist himself round out this impressive book.
Publisher: Prestel
Artists: Stan Douglas
Contributors: León Krempel
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 11 in (26 x 27.9 cm)
Pages: 208
Reproductions: 130 color
ISBN: 9783791353470
Retail: $60 | £40 | $470 HKD
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Stan Douglas
Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, thoroughly researched projects.