Willie Doherty Requisite Distance: Ghost Story and Landscape - Rilegato

Wylie, Charles

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300152558 ISBN 13: 9780300152555

Casa editrice: Dallas Museum of Art, 2009

Riassunto

The art of Willie Doherty (b. 1959), one of Northern Ireland’s most important artists, joins history, memory, and language into an enveloping experience. This catalogue features two bodies of Doherty’s work: Ghost Story, a tensely beautiful 15-minute media work based on landscape and memory, and a selection of photographs of the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Arising from the region’s Troubles, Doherty’s art is nonetheless universal in effect and can be seen independent of any specific context. Charles Wylie’s essay deals with how Ghost Story evokes a mind at work trying to recall unsettling things, and the impact of memory on the present. Through vivid imagery, Doherty creates a cinematic tale of quiet suspense whose evocative text (written by Doherty and published here in its entirety) is narrated by the actor Stephen Rea. Critically acclaimed at the 2007 Venice Biennale, Ghost Story is paired with eleven similar yet distinct large-scale color photographs from the 1990s that in still form powerfully depict the famed Irish landscape as a site of unease amidst lyrical beauty.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and author of Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke: History of Everything.

Product Description:

Book by Wylie Charles The Dallas Museum of Art

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dallas Museum of Art
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300152558
• ISBN 13: 9780300152555
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 95