The photographer Claudio Abate, as a congenial observer, astutely identifies the artist's ideas and follows the lines of the perfect axis, making the dialogue between the architecture of the exhibition space and the works of art visible.The ...
This volume also includes a series of previously unseen interviews that artist and art historian David Sewell conducted with Byars in the late 1970s in preparation for a book that was never published.
James Lee Byars
James Lee Byars: The monument to language, The diamond floor
James Lee Byars: the palace of perfect
James Lee Byars: "perfect is my death word" : Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, 25.8. - 26.11.1995
James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography
This book is the first thorough examination of Byars's days in Japan, the evolution of his art there, and the experiences and relationships that shaped it as well as of his final days and death in Egypt.
James Lee Byars: Five Points Make a Man
James Lee Byars
In 1956, James Lee Byars rented a sod farm for a midnight, full moon exhibition of his abstract figure sculptures; guests viewed the work from sleds pulled over snow. In...
The book contains more than 180 images of Byars's performances, installations, sculptures and letters.
James Lee Byars: Early Works and The Angel