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Pictures Made of Light : On James Turrell's Concept of the Picture in the Context of American Art After 1945

Gehring, Ulrike(Text by)
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The California light artist James Turrell founded a new, spatially defined light art in the 1960s.

In this volume, art historian Ulrike Gehring examines the various qualities of light in American art.

The transition from painted light in a picture to staged light in space is traced in the examples of James Turrell, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Dan Flavin.

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Kehrer Verlag
3936636826 / 9783936636826
Hardback
709.2
23/07/2007
Germany
German
351 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)
25 cm
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