Stan Douglas is an internationally recognized artist whose books are regularly stocked in the contemporary artists’ sections at major museums and galleries. His principal disciplines are film and video installations and photography; his common subject matter includes the history of literature, cinema and music and the issue of urban versus rural, as well as the “failed utopia” of modernism and obsolete technologies.
In its content, both the book and the artwork are about Vancouver’s history and sociology, but also have a broader context that touches on cinema, urban geography, modern art, conceptual art, mass media, and the history of the 1960s and ‘70s. In this way, and given Douglas’s pedigree, it will find a national market as an art book.
The essays are by leading art historians and writers (two are esteemed art history professors from Columbia and Temple, while Guilbaut’s book How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art is a bestselling art title), as well as an urban geographer.
The book includes the full-color title image as well as other color works from Douglas’s “Crowds and Riots” series of historical confrontations and/or gatherings which deal with the issues of authority and power.
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