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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Stan Douglas – The Secret Agent
| Publisher | Ludion |
| Year | 2015 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-94-91819-38-4 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Weight | 1028 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Eric C.H. de Bruyn, Seamus Kealy, Jason Smith, Dirk Snauwaert |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Wiels, Bruxelles |
| Article ID | art-18091 |
Visual artist Stan Douglas explores the turbulent history of 1970s Portugal, a time when the nation both freed itself from a dictatorship and relinquished its colonial holdings.
The book features three works. The first, a video installation titled 'The Secret Agent', follows a story written by Joseph Conrad in 1907. Douglas keeps the plot characters but transports the narrative to Lisbon, soon after the Carnation Revolution. 'Disco Angola', a series of staged historic photos in New York and Angola, juxtaposes the city's hedonistic nightlife with the African nation's brutal civil war.
Finally, 'Luanda-Kinshasa' is a six-hour-long film comprising eleven jazz songs from the legendary 30th Street Studio.
