Bilder aus Licht - James Turrell im Kontext der amerikanischen Kunst nach 1945 (Pictures Made of Light: On James Turrell's Concept of the Picture in the Context of American Art After 1945) - in German - Hardcover

 
9783936636826: Bilder aus Licht - James Turrell im Kontext der amerikanischen Kunst nach 1945 (Pictures Made of Light: On James Turrell's Concept of the Picture in the Context of American Art After 1945) - in German

Synopsis

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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