Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light

Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light
ISBN-10
0810969262
ISBN-13
9780810969261
Series
Dan Flavin
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Authors
Dan Flavin, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Description

"Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light provides a wide-ranging view of Flavin's work and intellectual thought, bringing together contributions by Tiffany Bell, Frances Colpitt, Jonathan Crary, Michael Govan, Joseph Kosuth, Michael Newman, J. Fiona Ragheb, and Brydon E. Smith, with excerpted writings by the artist. This volume is richly illustrated with selections from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's collection of Flavin's fluorescent constructions, as well as installation views from the Museum's long-standing history of exhibiting the artist's work."--BOOK JACKET.

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