Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light

by Flavin Dan

• ISBN13: 9780810969261
• ISBN10: 0810969262
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Dan Flavin (1933-1996) was hailed for his pioneering use of light and color divorced from traditional artistic contexts. Employing only commercial fluorescent lights, Flavin devised a radical new art form that circumvented the limits imposed by frames, pedestals, and other conventional means of display. His embrace of the unadorned fluorescent light as an aesthetic object placed him at the forefront of Minimal art.

This book, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, draws upon the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's extensive holdings of Flavin's work, which includes representative examples of each of the formats he developed over the course of his career.

Flooded with color on every page, this volume provides a wide-ranging view of Flavin's work and intellectual thought, bringing together contributions by a number of critics and art historians, at including excerpted writings by the artist.

Table of Contents

Of Situations and Sites	11	(7)
J. Fiona Ragheb
the nominal three (to William of Ockham)	18	(4)
Joseph Kosuth
monument on the survival of Mrs. Reppin	22	(4)
Frances Colpitt
greens crossing greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green)	26	(4)
Michael Govan
an artificial barrier of blue, red and blue fluorescent light (to Flavin Starbuck Judd)	30	(4)
Brydon E. Smith
untitled (to Jan and Ron Greenberg)	34	(4)
Jonathan Crary
untitled (fondly to Margo)	38	(4)
Tiffany Bell
untitled (to Barbara Nusse)	42	(50)
Michael Newman
Writings	47	(45)
Dan Flavin
Biography. Bibliography	92
Kara Vander Weg