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Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance: Ghost Story and Landscape
Charles Wylie
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Description for Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance: Ghost Story and Landscape
Hardback. The art of Willie Doherty, 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" and a selection of photographs of the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Series: Dallas Museum of Art Publications. Num Pages: 96 pages, 65 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; AJB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 612.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Series
Dallas Museum of Art Publications
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300152555
SKU
V9780300152555
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About Charles Wylie
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.
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