Dan Flavin, Lights /
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| Author / Creator: | Flavin, Dan, 1933-1996. |
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| Imprint: | Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, c2012. |
| Description: | 227 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8955456 |
| Summary: | Transforming color into light is one of the great themes of painting. Dan Flavin (1933-1996) used light as color and material. Employing ordinary neon light tubes, he developed a radical new form of art that freed the "picture" from its frame and turned it into a luminous, space-consuming color object. Expanding the wall painting by turning it into a light installation corresponded with the liberation of light from its traditionally spiritual meaning. Flavin's works recall neon signs from urban nightlife or commonplace living-room lamps. Viewers find themselves immersed in a splendid play of light and color that allows the physical experience of unrestrained art. This publication elucidates the development of Flavin's oeuvre--from the visual objects, the so-called Icons, to the spatial installations with neon tubes--and explains their genesis based on drawings and prints, an independent group of works that testifies to the artist's visual sensitivity. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-3522-3) Exhibition schedule: mumok. museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig, Vienna, October 13, 2012-February 3, 2013 - Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, March 16-August 18, 2013 |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, Oct. 13, 2012-Feb. 3, 2013, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, Mar. 16-Aug. 18, 2013. |
| Physical Description: | 227 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783775735230 3775735232 9783775735223 3775735224 |
