Description:
1st Edition:
A profusely illustrated book with text in English and Spanish. With an exhibition history, chronology, bibliography, and interview with the artist. Published in conjunction with a major 1999 Spanish exhibition, this is the first comprehensive monograph on this young American purveyor of the cinematic gaze in photography. Included are works from the "Natural Wonder", "Hover", and "Twilight" series.
A mound of earth, some boards, a fence, in the distance houses and hills. The earth comes alive. Is it the great mound constructed again and again—most memorably out of mashed potatoes—by Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Was it placed by man or displaced by nature? Did it emanate from within, pushing up from the core, breaking the surface of the earth’s skin like a tumor or a zit? It is surrounded by a fence, dividing and defining, marking the difference between wild and tame, known and unknown, safety and danger. The mound is on the other side, contained. We are safe. But the mound is close; the boundary could easily be crossed.
David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Wally and the Beav, Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles, the stiff-stocked dioramas in museums of natural history, train-set suburbs spread out across Ping-Pong tables, the high happy colors of Disney. This is the world of Gregory Crewdson, an intensely realistic unreality, in which the landscape of life is transformed into a heightened blend of nature and artifice.
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca
Condition: Good. Some shelf marks on cover.
Book Size: 30 x 24cm
Pages: 131
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 84-78000-097-6
Description:
1st Edition:
A profusely illustrated book with text in English and Spanish. With an exhibition history, chronology, bibliography, and interview with the artist. Published in conjunction with a major 1999 Spanish exhibition, this is the first comprehensive monograph on this young American purveyor of the cinematic gaze in photography. Included are works from the "Natural Wonder", "Hover", and "Twilight" series.
A mound of earth, some boards, a fence, in the distance houses and hills. The earth comes alive. Is it the great mound constructed again and again—most memorably out of mashed potatoes—by Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Was it placed by man or displaced by nature? Did it emanate from within, pushing up from the core, breaking the surface of the earth’s skin like a tumor or a zit? It is surrounded by a fence, dividing and defining, marking the difference between wild and tame, known and unknown, safety and danger. The mound is on the other side, contained. We are safe. But the mound is close; the boundary could easily be crossed.
David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Wally and the Beav, Creepy Crawlers and Incredible Edibles, the stiff-stocked dioramas in museums of natural history, train-set suburbs spread out across Ping-Pong tables, the high happy colors of Disney. This is the world of Gregory Crewdson, an intensely realistic unreality, in which the landscape of life is transformed into a heightened blend of nature and artifice.
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca
Condition: Good. Some shelf marks on cover.
Book Size: 30 x 24cm
Pages: 131
Format: Softcover
ISBN: 84-78000-097-6