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Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere

Door Alexander Dumbadze

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#323469-XB21
Titel
Bas Jan Ader: Death is Elsewhere
Auteur
Dumbadze, Alexander
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
The University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
022603853X
ISBN13
9780226038537
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist's legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader's tremendous rel... (Lees verder)evance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader's work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader's engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.
Pagina's
190
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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