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Pierre Huyghe and Douglas Coupland: School Spirit

Encounters

Pierre Huyghe and Douglas Coupland: School Spirit( )
Artist: Huyghe, Pierre
Text by: Coupland, Douglas
ISBN:978-2-914563-07-9
Publication Date:Oct 2002
Publisher:Dis Voir Editions
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

Dis Voir's Encountersseries invites a well-known contemporary artist to choose a subject for a book. The artist also selects a person with "elective affinities"--someone with whom he or she would like to share this exchange. The resulting collaborative volumes serve as an artistic and political laboratory of the present. For this first installment, French artist Pierre Huyghe choose Canadian writer Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, for the influence that Coupland...
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Book Details
Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Art / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.54 x 8.62 x 0.45 Inches
Book Weight:0.98 Pounds
Author Biography
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Douglas Coupland was born December 30, 1961 on a Canadian military base in Baden-Soellingen, Germany. He graduated from Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver in 1979 and went on to McGill University. He was unhappy there and went on to Emily Carr College of Art and Design. He has said that these were the best four years of his life. He graduated in 1984 with a focus on sculpture and moved on to study at the European Design Institute in Milan. He also completed a two-year course in Japanese business science in Hawaii in 1986.He soon began writing for magazines as a means of paying the bills. He soon started work on his first novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture which was published in 1991. His second novel Shampoo Planet focused on the generation after Generation X and was published in 1992. This generation was termed "Global Teens". His career has consisted of writing, sculpting, and editing and he also hosted The Search for Generation X, a PBS documentary, 1991. Douglas Coupland has also worked on a magazine called Wired . He wrote a short story about the life of the employees of Mocrosoft Corporation. This short story provided inspiration for his novel Microserfs.

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