Beitin, Andreas (and) Martin Hartung — Matthew Day Jackson: Total Accomplishment

Berlin, DISTANZ, 2014. Hardcover. Color-printed boards with the title in silver lettering across the front cover and down the spine. Pages: (~50), 51-373, (~60). Profusely illustrated with color images. "The Cultural Impact of the Atomic Bomb. The Work of Matthew Day Jackson (b. Panorama City 1974, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) opens up a dialogue between various aspects of the history of Western culture and progress, including technology and pop culture, as well as art history and philosophy. Through a variety of art forms--sculpture, painting, installation, photography, and video--Jackson's technically complex works condense historical facts into a deeply descriptive aesthetic fabric. In a continuous confrontation with American history, the artist challenges firmly established perspectives of the world with a unique combination of ingenuity and craft. In the form of an artistic debate on the substance and future of the American dream, Jackson weaves its aftereffects into his works. In this process, the artist's self-mythologizing invariably occupies the center of his oeuvre, thus contextualizing physicality and the destructive results of the human power of invention. This publication is the most extensive monograph on Matthew Day Jackson to date. Large-format images provide an overview of Jackson's work and show the development of his multi-layered practice from 2003 until today." Contents are as follows: Critical mass / Martin Hartung -- The information bomb (chapter 2) / Paul Virilio -- Technotheography / Caroline A. Jones -- From trinity to tranquility : the atom and space in Matthew Day Jackson's sublime / Mick Broderick -- Selected works, 2003-2013 / Matthew Day Jackson -- Interview with Matthew Day Jackson / Jenny Moore -- Being the bomb : Matthew Day Jackson's archaeology of human destructivity / Knut Ebeling -- A child's smile / Donatien Grau -- Becoming is the place to be / Anne Ellegood -- How can you jump over your shadow when you no longer have one? / Jean Baudrillard -- Creativity in science and art / Jerome I. Friedman -- Jack's garage : art in the trenches / D. Graham Burnett. VG: Exlibray copy. Stamp on title page. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page.