Flight Patterns

159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 12, 2000 to February 11, 2001. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. *** "Flight Patterns highlights contemporary artists primarily working in the Pacific Basin--Southern California, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia--whose work addresses the specific topographical conditions and experience of living in this geographically and geopolitically dynamic region. As its conceptual foundation, Flight Patterns rethinks topographical practices of photography since the 1970s, looking at current manifestations of the topographical impulse in landscape-oriented work. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue include new projects, recent work from the 1990s, and historically significant works of photography, film, video, and painting by 23 artists, including Doug Aitken, Rodney Graham, Anthony Hernandez, Tracey Moffatt, Paul Outerbridge, Allan Sekula, Miles Coolidge, Simon Leung. Flight Patterns introduces the work of West Coast American artists as well as those artists working in regions where there is a parallel history of landscapes and their representation, and where similar postcolonial issues are at stake. A landmark artistic, social, and geographical document, Flight Patterns highlights a diversity of artistic approaches--both formalist and conceptual--to one of the most fascinating and complex areas of the planet." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: In the Field/On Location: Cornelia H. Butler; Locating: Paul Outerbridge, Anthony Hernandez; Document and Intervention: Allan Sekula, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Miles Coolidge, Christina Fernandez; Migration and Movement: Roy Kiyooka, Simon Leung, Simryn Gill; Wilderness: Rodney Graham, Gavin Hipkins, Rachel Khedoori; Land : Igloolik Isuma Productions, David Lamelas, Glen Wilson; Topographies: Tim Johnson, Lee Mullican, Caryl Davis, Doug Aitken, Yuk King Tan; Periphery: Laurence Aberhart, Tracey Moffatt, Michael Parekowhai; Topographies: Francis Pound; Just What Is It That Makes The Term Global-Local So Widely Cited, Yet So Annoying?: Lee Weng Choy. Size: 4to.