The Chichu Art Museum: Tadao Ando Builds For Walter De Maria, James Turrell, and Claude Monet

by Tadao, Ando

• ISBN13: 9783775714600
• ISBN10: 377571460X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

On the island of Naoshima off the picturesque coast of western Japan, Japanese architect Tadao Ando has built a spectacular structure comprised of basic geometric forms. Situated on cliffs overlooking the straits of Seto-Naikai, the building provides a congenial setting for the presentation of numerous undisputed masterpieces of artistic reduction, including several of Claude Monet's incomparable Water Lilies, monumental sculptures by Walter de Maria, and meditative light installations by James Turrell. Here, on the island of Naoshima off the picturesque coast of western Japan, the heirs of the publisher Fukutake have realizing posthumously his lifelong dream of an expansive museum environment, a private estate filled with sculptures, installations, Land Art and artists' houses.

Table of Contents

Naoya Hatakeyama	p. 1
Ambitious dream	p. 79
To contemplate living well	p. 80
Creating a place for aesthetic experience	p. 81
The Chichu Art Museum	p. 88
Drawings and sketches	p. 90
Journey to the origin	p. 109
Feeling to thought ...	p. 114
Walter De Maria's universal form	p. 115
Speaking for the light	p. 121
James Turrell	p. 122
Monet's Water lilies : odes to nature, history, and the human spirit	p. 129
The big picture	p. 142
About Ando, De Maria, Turrell, and Monet	p. 157
Ryuji Miyamoto	p. 161
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