Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 2011

Texts by Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lütticken, and Jesse Proudfoot. Interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro

Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 is a 44-foot mural installation by Stan Douglas on permanent display at The Woodward Complex in Vancouver. This beautifully designed monograph takes an in-depth look into this monumental work that depicts a staged reenactment of a violent event in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Gastown Riot, as it came to be known, was the culmination of mounting tensions between the city’s counterculture and police following weeks of drug-related arrests. Thousands of people had gathered in a peaceful “smoke-in” protest in the Gastown district, before police in riot gear broke up the event using batons, horses, and dogs to disperse the protesters. Douglas’s meticulous recreation captures the ensuing mayhem with its general atmosphere of confusion and panic. This monograph features essays by Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lütticken, and Jesse Proudfoot and an interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro. Also included are supplementary works from Douglas’s Crowds & Riots series and archival photographs of the Gastown Riot.

Details

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Artist: Stan Douglas

Contributors: Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lütticken, Jesse Proudfoot

Publication Date: 2011

ISBN: 9781551524139

Retail: $40 US & Canada

Status: Not Available

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in (22.2 x 27.3 cm)

Pages: 224

Artist and Contributors

Stan Douglas

Since the 1980s, Stan Douglas (b. 1960) has created films, photographs, and other multidisciplinary projects that investigate the parameters of their respective mediums. His ongoing inquiry into technology’s role in image making, and how those mediations infiltrate and shape collective memory, has resulted in works that are at once specific in their historical and cultural references and broadly accessible.

Alexander Alberro

Nora M. Alter

Serge Guilbaut

Sven Lütticken

Jesse Proudfoot

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