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Title: James Turrell: The Other Horizon by Peter Noever, Daniel Birnbaum, Georges Didi-Hubermann ISBN: 3-7757-9062-4 Publisher: Cantz Editions Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant
Comment: "The question is not what you look at, but what you SEE."- -H.D. Thoreau
This quote from Thoreau aptly applies to the work of Flagstaff, AZ. artist James Turrell. Turrell has been fascinated all his life with the concept of light and its use in art and architecture. Add to this his notion that the individual should experience this art alone, embracing what the piece has, and does not have, to offer, and one has the basic mindset to take on his art.
To best experience Turrell, one needs to go to an exhibit and take the time necessary to participate IN his art. Like a good book or good music, art reqires a level of active participation to fully realize the piece's potential and to maximize its impact. A Turrell exhibit is a glorious thing- each person actively participates, taking in his color concepts, becoming one with them. Whether in one of his famed "skyspaces," where the participants sit in a consistently lighted room to look through an oval shaped hole in the roof at dusk to watch the changing lighting patterns- the light from the roof diminishes and the consistent railing lighting in the room dominates- or vice versa if one sees the exhibit at dawn, to his "dark rooms" where the viewer is in a 99.9% darkened room with the faint glimpse of an outline of light, allowing the mind and eyes of the viewer to re-conceive its surroundings and realities- not unlike an ink blot test, but in the dark, Turrell's pieces are challenging the concept of light and how each of us perceive it and use it in our lives.
What his art offers is vividly displayed in this book, a wonderfully in-depth one that showcases his growth and remarkable consistency brilliantly. His art is eclectic, ranging from the aforementioned "dark rooms," "Skyscapes," "blue rooms" (viewers in a room with a blue light dominating it, again, challenging perceptions and optics), to a recent "skyscape" that allowed perceived viewings of an eclipse, to his re-construction of a dormant crater (outside of Flagstaff, AZ) to allow unique views of the sky, light, the world. Each piece of art challenges the concept of optical illusion vs. reality- the light offers 3 dimenstional viewing in a 2 dimensional world based on angles of the light, the walls, etc- as well as the common perceptions of light in art.
Again, Turrell should be viewed in a proper exhibit, but this book offers a brilliant overview of his career. The text is in both German and English, but still offers precise pictures, diagrams,and Turrell's philosophies on art, light, and the world. It's a brilliant work by one of today's foremost artists.
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Title: James Turrell: Eclipse by Richard Bright, Paul Schutze, James Turrell, Michael Hue-Williams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Robert Solso ISBN: 3775708987 Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Art of Light and Space by Jan Butterfield, Jim McHugh ISBN: 0789201712 Publisher: Abbeville Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler ISBN: 0520049209 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Gordon Matta-Clark by Thomas Crow, Corinne Diserens, Christian Kravagna, Judith Russi Kirshner ISBN: 0714839167 Publisher: Phaidon Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Richard Serra: Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres by Richard Serra, Dick Reinartz, Hal Foster ISBN: 3882436336 Publisher: Steidl Publishing Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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