books by Art Gallery of York University (archive jessica matthew)

books by Art Gallery of York University

books:

Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films Of Douglas Gordon
Philip Monk, Douglas Gordon

Art Gallery of York University/The Power Plant, 2004

How to double-cross Hollywood as an artist? This first monograph on British artist Douglas Gordon analyses all of the artist's video projection installations that are based on his appropriations of Hollywood film noir or Hitchcock films, examining Gordon's language works as well. Counter to the usual interpretations of Gordon's work as a dichotomy between good and evil, Double-Cross argues that his work is all about dissemblance, with the ...

Matthew Brannon: To Say the Very Least
Philip Monk, Matthew Brannon

Art Gallery of York University, 2008

To Say the Very Least is the first comprehensive publication on the print and installation work of the rising New York artist Matthew Brannon. Everything takes place on the surface, or just under it, in Brannon's work, just as everything is public or takes place in public there. The prints exploit their generic relation to advertising and posters, but the benign appearance of the illustrations, reminiscent of 1950s cookbooks and cocktail ...

Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan
Philip Monk

Art Gallery of York University, 2008

Jessica Diamond
Loretta Yarlow, Jessica Diamond

Art Gallery of York University, 2003

Through her employment of a variety of media ranging from sculpture to the comic strip, American artist Jessica Diamond has had a consistent interest in wall drawings. Known for wry, incisive texts painted directly on the wall, Diamond continues to use elements of image and text in her work, even as she moves toward an increasingly tactile and sensual approach, as documented here.

Spirit Hunter
Philip Monk, Jeremy Blake

Art Gallery of York University, 2006

When Sarah Winchester's husband died, she inherited a fortune in profits from the Winchester Repeating Rifle. She spent the second half of her life building a 160-room Victorian mansion, a construction project designed never to end, as she believed that continuing to build would stave off the ghosts of those killed by Winchester guns. Jeremy Blake's Winchester Trilogy uses the huge, tangled structure that resulted, the definitive haunted house, ...