Light show.
Contributor(s): Lauson, Cliff
| Hayward Gallery.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2013Description: 203 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm.ISBN: 0262019140; 9780262019149.Subject(s): Light art -- Exhibitions | Light in art -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.0407 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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An investigation of art that explores the experiential and sculptural nature of light, showcasing a range of artworks from the 1960s to the present.
Light Show explores the experiential and sculptural nature of light, tracing a historical trajectory of artwork that uses light to create specific conditions of viewership. The book, which accompanies an exhibition originating at the Hayward Gallery, London, showcases more than twenty dramatic installations and sculptures from the 1960s to the present, pictured in 150 illustrations, most in color. These include works by artists associated with historical movements such as the "Light and Space" movement of the 1970s; rarely seen installations by such precursors as Dan Flavin and Carlos Cruz-Diez; and work by contemporary artists who have found new ways to use light as a sculptural medium.
All of the artworks explore different aspects related to light, including color, duration, movement, sunlight, and moonlight. Some, including Dan Flavin's work made from fluorescent tubes, use light to dematerialize space while others, such as Anthony McCall's "solid light" projections, give light an almost tangible quality. Many light works create immersive experiences, including Olafur Eliasson's atmospheric environments; still others use light as a medium for political response, including Jenny Holzer's LED signs that broadcast censored documents from the "war on terror."
Light Show features essays by the curator and editor Cliff Lauson, the art historian Anne Wagner, and the science writer Philip Ball, who traces the rich history of light as a medium, from phenomenon to artwork.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, held at Hayward Gallery, London, January 30 - April 28, 2013; curator: Dr. Cliff Lauson.
Includes artists\' biographies.
Includes bibliographical references.
Light art: an immaterial material / Cliff Lauson -- Vision made visible / Anne Wagner -- From symbol to substance: the technologies of light / Philip Ball -- David Batchelor -- Jim Campbell -- Carlos Cruz-Diez -- Bill Culbert -- Olafur Eliasson -- Fischliand Weiss -- Dan Flavin -- Ceal Floyer -- Nancy Holt -- Jenny Holzer -- Ann Veronica Janssens -- Brigitte Kowanz -- Anthony McCall -- Francois Morellet -- Iván Navarro -- Philippe Parreno -- Katie Paterson -- Conrad Shawcross -- James Turrell -- Leo Villareal -- Doug Wheeler -- Cerith Wyn Evans.
Light Show explores how artists working over the past fifty years have used that power to create some of the most innovative and compelling sculpture in contemporary art.--P.4 of cover.
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CHOICE Review
This richly illustrated, well-designed catalogue accompanied a 2013 exhibition titled Light Show at the Hayward Gallery, London. Curator Lauson edits a series of original essays that examine the nature and symbolism of light and its use in sculpture and installations. This exhibition catalogue serves as a survey of light-based art from the 1960s to the present and features a diverse range of artists exploring individual perceptions of space, psychological responses to light and color, and more conceptual topics such as the social and cultural meanings of light. The 22 artists' texts that follow the essays offer readers an explanation of how and why each artist worked with (mainly) artificial light as a sculptural medium to explore the spatial and sensory aspects of light. Artists who use light as signage were excluded. The book concludes with a list of recommended readings about light art, along with biographies and bibliographies for the artists featured in the exhibition. This informative volume will appeal to readers new to light art, and to those with more extensive knowledge of the subject. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. C. B. Cannon Savannah College of Art and DesignAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Cliff Lauson is Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London.Philip Ball was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years and is the author of Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything and other books.
Anne Wagner, an art historian, critic, and teacher, is the author of A House Divided: American Art Since 1955 and other books.