ISOLATED HOUSES
by John Divola
Los Angeles is a centrifugal city, fundamentally American in its tendency
toward the periphery. Isolated Houses focuses on the urban sprawlís
outer frontier. Here, 150 miles outside the city, the built environment comprises
a handful of rudimentary structures, isolated cubes at the edge of the infinite
plane of the desert. The dwellings that dot the landscape seem temporary and
toy-like, but are the center of these photographs, the reason for their being.
This work pays homage to those places where nature and culture intersect,
and suggests that we all occupy a border zone between the natural and the
artificial. John Divolaís work is included in the permanent collections
of such museums as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It has been exhibited
throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Isolated Houses is printed
in a first edition of 1,000 copies, with an introduction by Jan Tumlir.
Hardcover, 11 x 12, 48 pages, 30 4-color plates.
ISBN 3-923922-80-9 (Item #80-9) $60.00
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