Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon
Author: Douglas Gordon
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780870703904

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Douglas Gordon: Timeline, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from June 11-September 4, 2006.

The Help-yourself City

The Help-yourself City
Author: Gordon C. C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190691336

When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.

I Had Nowhere to Go

I Had Nowhere to Go
Author: Jonas Mekas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2017-04
Genre: Lithuanian Americans
ISBN: 9783959051460

Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee from the Nazis for copying leaflets. They were interned for eight months in a labour camp in Elmshorn. The Soviet occupation prevented him from returning to his native Lithuania after the war and, classed as a ?displaced person?, he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. Towards the end of 1949 he and his brother emigrated to New York. In his autobiography 'I Had Nowhere to Go' he describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence.

Hey, Father!

Hey, Father!
Author: Gordon Douglas
Publisher: Servant Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781569552377

After More Than Thirty Years on the job, Fr. Gordon Douglas still finds that each day brings plenty of surprises to keep him on his toes. The only thing he knows for sure is that every day someone is sure to call out, "Hey, Father!" And often when he hears those words, a poignant story follows. Here's a collection of such stories -- sometimes heart-warming, sometimes provocative -- about young people who are struggling to make sense of their lives. Their triumphs, defeats, and challenges have left a lasting impression on those around them. In these pages you'll meet ... the senior heavyweight wrestling team captain who never missed a practice, competed in seventy-four matches ... and had cerebral palsy. Rebecca, a recent grad and single mother who made the hard but courageous choice to deliver her baby and give him up for adoption. Ryland, whose suicide attempt -- jumping off the highest bridge over Puget Sound -- left him wheelchair-bound and brain-damaged. Katy's classmates, who couldn't forgive the man who had brutally murdered her and her mother.

Past Imperfect

Past Imperfect
Author: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: Installations (Art)
ISBN: 9783930693290

Double-cross

Double-cross
Author: Philip Monk
Publisher: Art Gallery of York University
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780921047964

How to double-cross Hollywood as an artist? This first monograph on British artist Douglas Gordon analyses all of the artist's video projection installations that are based on his appropriations of Hollywood film noir or Hitchcock films, examining Gordon's language works as well. Counter to the usual interpretations of Gordon's work as a dichotomy between good and evil, Double-Cross argues that his work is all about dissemblance, with the dichotomy only one deception among others. It also argues that, with the inaugural separation of the components of sound and image in his work, one of the artist's disguises is that of an author. All the fragments of the artist's work--projections, language works, photography--add up to the production of a criminal author. His final disguise is that of an experimental filmmaker whose subject is not the film noir themes of trust, guilt, fate, and the madness of the double that appear as the content of his work, but the temporality of the spectator's engagement.

The Presbyterian Philosopher

The Presbyterian Philosopher
Author: Douglas J. Douma
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532607253

This is the story of Gordon Clark (1902-85), respected philosopher and prolific writer, who held that Christianity, as a logically coherent system, is superior to all other philosophies. Clark fought no wars and conquered no kingdoms. Yet he was a leading figure in many theological wars fought for the Kingdom of God. These battles for the minds and souls of men were every bit as crucial as physical wars between nations. In an age of increasing secularization, he put up an intellectual defense of the Christian faith. This faith, he believed, was a system. All of its parts link together, a luxury of no other philosophy. His stance shows a Christianity that is in fact intellectual, not relying on appeals to emotion or experience. In propounding this view, he encountered frequent opposition, not from the secular world, but from within his own denomination. This biography helps explain why his thought was so profound, why resistance mounted against him, and how his struggles impacted American Presbyterianism. Additionally, this book calls for a reappraisal of Clark's views, which have been maligned by controversy. Understanding and applying his views could significantly fortify Christians combating irrational and non-systematic ideas prevalent in today's churches.

California Houses of Gordon Drake

California Houses of Gordon Drake
Author: Douglas Baylis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258811419

Additional Contributors Include Carl Birger Troedsson, Harwell Hamilton Harris, And Walter L. Doty.

How Architecture Works

How Architecture Works
Author: Douglas E. Gordon
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Written by former technical editors of Architecture magazine, this fascinating (and fun) introduction to architectural design, construction, and practice demystifies the processes, profession, and the end products of architecture without oversimplifying them. Illustrated by Timothy B. McDonald. For experience darchitects as well as novice enthusiasts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Violet

Violet
Author: Jessica Douglas-Home
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: