Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light
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Texts by Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (1933-1996) was hailed for his pioneering use of light and color divorced from traditional artistic contexts. Employing only commercial fluorescent lights, Flavin devised a radical new art form that circumvented the limits imposed by frames, pedestals, and other conventional means of display. His embrace of the unadorned fluorescent light as an aesthetic object placed him at the forefront of Minimal art.
This book, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, draws upon the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\s extensive holdings of Flavin\s work, which includes representative examples of each of the formats he developed over the course of his career.
Flooded with color on every page, this volume provides a wide-ranging view of Flavin\s work and intellectual thought, bringing together contributions by a number of critics and art historians, and including excerpted writings by the artist.
Publisher: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
Artists: Dan Flavin
Contributors: Dan Flavin
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in (23.5 x 29.2 cm)
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780810969261
Status: Out Of Print
Dan Flavin
From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that is installed on a diagonal on the wall—a work which marks the artist’s first use of fluorescent light alone, until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially-available fluorescent lamps to create installations, or “situations” as he preferred to call them, of light and color. Through the construction of light, Flavin was able to literally establish and redefine space.