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‘Field to Form’ is the first comprehensive overview of Irene Kopelman’s expansive practice, bringing together a wealth of documentation on seventeen projects that the artist, in close collaboration with researchers, scientists, and other specialists, has developed over the last 25 years. The book features a conversation between the artist and Susana González, director at(...)
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‘Field to Form’ is the first comprehensive overview of Irene Kopelman’s expansive practice, bringing together a wealth of documentation on seventeen projects that the artist, in close collaboration with researchers, scientists, and other specialists, has developed over the last 25 years. The book features a conversation between the artist and Susana González, director at(...)
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Irene Kopelman: Field to form
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‘Field to Form’ is the first comprehensive overview of Irene Kopelman’s expansive practice, bringing together a wealth of documentation on seventeen projects that the artist, in close collaboration with researchers, scientists, and other specialists, has developed over the last 25 years. The book features a conversation between the artist and Susana González, director at Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove, where Kopelman had a residency and exhibition in 2023, as well as contributions by former MAMAC director Hélène Guenin, William T. Wcislo of the Smithsonian Tropical Institute, curator and art critic Adrienne Samos, and Spanish curator Agustín Pérez Rubio.
Irene Kopelman: Field to form
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‘Field to Form’ is the first comprehensive overview of Irene Kopelman’s expansive practice, bringing together a wealth of documentation on seventeen projects that the artist, in close collaboration with researchers, scientists, and other specialists, has developed over the last 25 years. The book features a conversation between the artist and Susana González, director at Centro de Arte Fundación María José Jove, where Kopelman had a residency and exhibition in 2023, as well as contributions by former MAMAC director Hélène Guenin, William T. Wcislo of the Smithsonian Tropical Institute, curator and art critic Adrienne Samos, and Spanish curator Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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Calder : rêver en équilibre
Calder : rêver en équilibre
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Publié à l’occasion de « Calder. Rêver en équilibre », la rétrospective de l’artiste à la Fondation Louis Vuitton, cet ouvrage réunit plus de 300 oeuvres d’Alexander Calder, un des artistes les plus influents et célébrés du xxe siècle. Ce livre témoigne du lien profond de Calder avec la France, et retrace le développement de son oeuvre des années 1920 à sa disparition en(...)
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Publié à l’occasion de « Calder. Rêver en équilibre », la rétrospective de l’artiste à la Fondation Louis Vuitton, cet ouvrage réunit plus de 300 oeuvres d’Alexander Calder, un des artistes les plus influents et célébrés du xxe siècle. Ce livre témoigne du lien profond de Calder avec la France, et retrace le développement de son oeuvre des années 1920 à sa disparition en(...)
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Publié à l’occasion de « Calder. Rêver en équilibre », la rétrospective de l’artiste à la Fondation Louis Vuitton, cet ouvrage réunit plus de 300 oeuvres d’Alexander Calder, un des artistes les plus influents et célébrés du xxe siècle. Ce livre témoigne du lien profond de Calder avec la France, et retrace le développement de son oeuvre des années 1920 à sa disparition en 1976. Il envisage aussi comment ses sculptures de fil de fer, mobiles et stabiles sont entrés en résonance avec les chefs-d’oeuvre de ses contemporains, tels Paul Klee et Wassily Kandinsky, ainsi que son cercle proche où figuraient Jean Arp, Joan Miró et Fernand Léger.
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Publié à l’occasion de « Calder. Rêver en équilibre », la rétrospective de l’artiste à la Fondation Louis Vuitton, cet ouvrage réunit plus de 300 oeuvres d’Alexander Calder, un des artistes les plus influents et célébrés du xxe siècle. Ce livre témoigne du lien profond de Calder avec la France, et retrace le développement de son oeuvre des années 1920 à sa disparition en 1976. Il envisage aussi comment ses sculptures de fil de fer, mobiles et stabiles sont entrés en résonance avec les chefs-d’oeuvre de ses contemporains, tels Paul Klee et Wassily Kandinsky, ainsi que son cercle proche où figuraient Jean Arp, Joan Miró et Fernand Léger.
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How do we relate to the spaces we inhabit? What happens when home shifts from “everyday” to “one day,” from accumulation to loss? How is memory bound to place, and what persists when a place itself withdraws? “Home” emerges through the accumulation of time condensing lived experience into a sense of belonging and continuity. In domestic interiors, everyday routines leave(...)
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How do we relate to the spaces we inhabit? What happens when home shifts from “everyday” to “one day,” from accumulation to loss? How is memory bound to place, and what persists when a place itself withdraws? “Home” emerges through the accumulation of time condensing lived experience into a sense of belonging and continuity. In domestic interiors, everyday routines leave(...)
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July 2026
July 2026
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Leaving one Place for the other - Rooms I slept in
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How do we relate to the spaces we inhabit? What happens when home shifts from “everyday” to “one day,” from accumulation to loss? How is memory bound to place, and what persists when a place itself withdraws? “Home” emerges through the accumulation of time condensing lived experience into a sense of belonging and continuity. In domestic interiors, everyday routines leave traces that accumulate into a personal archive, while memories become inseparably attached to the places we inhabit. When “home” ceases to be a site of return and instead becomes a transient condition, continuity disperses. Memory no longer accumulates in one place but fragments across spaces that disappear from everyday life. Each departure marks a rupture, as a place passes irreversibly into the past.
Leaving one Place for the other - Rooms I slept in
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How do we relate to the spaces we inhabit? What happens when home shifts from “everyday” to “one day,” from accumulation to loss? How is memory bound to place, and what persists when a place itself withdraws? “Home” emerges through the accumulation of time condensing lived experience into a sense of belonging and continuity. In domestic interiors, everyday routines leave traces that accumulate into a personal archive, while memories become inseparably attached to the places we inhabit. When “home” ceases to be a site of return and instead becomes a transient condition, continuity disperses. Memory no longer accumulates in one place but fragments across spaces that disappear from everyday life. Each departure marks a rupture, as a place passes irreversibly into the past.
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Une rétrospective du travail de l'artiste américaine Kiki Smith qui, à travers des médiums et techniques extrêmement divers, se concentre sur les formes multiples qui relient le vivant et son environnement.// A retrospective of the work of American artist Kiki Smith, who, through an extremely diverse range of media and techniques, focuses on the multiple forms that(...)
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Une rétrospective du travail de l'artiste américaine Kiki Smith qui, à travers des médiums et techniques extrêmement divers, se concentre sur les formes multiples qui relient le vivant et son environnement.// A retrospective of the work of American artist Kiki Smith, who, through an extremely diverse range of media and techniques, focuses on the multiple forms that(...)
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June 2026
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Kiki Smith : Être ici, maintenant, partout/ Being here, now, everywhere
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Une rétrospective du travail de l'artiste américaine Kiki Smith qui, à travers des médiums et techniques extrêmement divers, se concentre sur les formes multiples qui relient le vivant et son environnement.// A retrospective of the work of American artist Kiki Smith, who, through an extremely diverse range of media and techniques, focuses on the multiple forms that connect living beings to their environment.
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Une rétrospective du travail de l'artiste américaine Kiki Smith qui, à travers des médiums et techniques extrêmement divers, se concentre sur les formes multiples qui relient le vivant et son environnement.// A retrospective of the work of American artist Kiki Smith, who, through an extremely diverse range of media and techniques, focuses on the multiple forms that connect living beings to their environment.
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Livre d'artiste mythique enfin réédité, dans une version actualisée et révisée, « Enseigner et apprendre », véritable œuvre participative, constitue une introduction précieuse à l'œuvre de Robert Filliou et à ses idées pionnières et novatrices sur la dimension pédagogique de la création artistique. Cet ouvrage est la réédition d'un livre d'artiste initialement publié en(...)
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Livre d'artiste mythique enfin réédité, dans une version actualisée et révisée, « Enseigner et apprendre », véritable œuvre participative, constitue une introduction précieuse à l'œuvre de Robert Filliou et à ses idées pionnières et novatrices sur la dimension pédagogique de la création artistique. Cet ouvrage est la réédition d'un livre d'artiste initialement publié en(...)
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Enseigner et apprendre, arts vivants par Robert Filliou et le lecteur, s'il le désire avec la participation de John Cage, Benjamin Patterson, Allan Kaprow, Marcelle Filliou, Vera, Bjössi, Karl Rot, Dorothy Iannone, Diter Rot, Joseph Beuys
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Livre d'artiste mythique enfin réédité, dans une version actualisée et révisée, « Enseigner et apprendre », véritable œuvre participative, constitue une introduction précieuse à l'œuvre de Robert Filliou et à ses idées pionnières et novatrices sur la dimension pédagogique de la création artistique. Cet ouvrage est la réédition d'un livre d'artiste initialement publié en 1970 en anglais et en allemand aux éditions Walther König à Cologne, puis, dans une traduction française en 1998, aux éditions Lebeer Hossmann à Bruxelles. C'est cette dernière version, également épuisée depuis de nombreuses années, que les Éditions Incertain Sens rééditent.
Enseigner et apprendre, arts vivants par Robert Filliou et le lecteur, s'il le désire avec la participation de John Cage, Benjamin Patterson, Allan Kaprow, Marcelle Filliou, Vera, Bjössi, Karl Rot, Dorothy Iannone, Diter Rot, Joseph Beuys
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Livre d'artiste mythique enfin réédité, dans une version actualisée et révisée, « Enseigner et apprendre », véritable œuvre participative, constitue une introduction précieuse à l'œuvre de Robert Filliou et à ses idées pionnières et novatrices sur la dimension pédagogique de la création artistique. Cet ouvrage est la réédition d'un livre d'artiste initialement publié en 1970 en anglais et en allemand aux éditions Walther König à Cologne, puis, dans une traduction française en 1998, aux éditions Lebeer Hossmann à Bruxelles. C'est cette dernière version, également épuisée depuis de nombreuses années, que les Éditions Incertain Sens rééditent.
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Né Daniel Issac Feinstein en Roumanie en 1930, devenu Suisse par adoption, tour à tour poète, danseur, metteur en scène, créateur des éditions MAT, commissaire d'exposition, plasticien, restaurateur, se considérant comme apatride ayant vécu dans toute l'Europe, homme aux amitiés solides, multiples et artistiques, Daniel Spoerri, membre fondateur du Nouveau Réalisme, est(...)
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Né Daniel Issac Feinstein en Roumanie en 1930, devenu Suisse par adoption, tour à tour poète, danseur, metteur en scène, créateur des éditions MAT, commissaire d'exposition, plasticien, restaurateur, se considérant comme apatride ayant vécu dans toute l'Europe, homme aux amitiés solides, multiples et artistiques, Daniel Spoerri, membre fondateur du Nouveau Réalisme, est(...)
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April 2026
April 2026
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Daniel Spoerri : Les choses de la vie
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Né Daniel Issac Feinstein en Roumanie en 1930, devenu Suisse par adoption, tour à tour poète, danseur, metteur en scène, créateur des éditions MAT, commissaire d'exposition, plasticien, restaurateur, se considérant comme apatride ayant vécu dans toute l'Europe, homme aux amitiés solides, multiples et artistiques, Daniel Spoerri, membre fondateur du Nouveau Réalisme, est l'un des artistes majeurs du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage richement illustré présente une vingtaine d'œuvres majeures des années 1960 aux années 1990, rassemble de nombreux documents, et contient des textes signés de Catherine Francblin, Samuel Gross et Pavel Schmidt.
Daniel Spoerri : Les choses de la vie
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Né Daniel Issac Feinstein en Roumanie en 1930, devenu Suisse par adoption, tour à tour poète, danseur, metteur en scène, créateur des éditions MAT, commissaire d'exposition, plasticien, restaurateur, se considérant comme apatride ayant vécu dans toute l'Europe, homme aux amitiés solides, multiples et artistiques, Daniel Spoerri, membre fondateur du Nouveau Réalisme, est l'un des artistes majeurs du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage richement illustré présente une vingtaine d'œuvres majeures des années 1960 aux années 1990, rassemble de nombreux documents, et contient des textes signés de Catherine Francblin, Samuel Gross et Pavel Schmidt.
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The Art of Yamaguchi Akira
The Art of Yamaguchi Akira
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Young painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan's art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of classical Japanese painting with the observant eye of a modern-day Peter Breughel and the humor and draftsmanship of a manga cartoonist. Yamaguchi's landscapes of the imagination, compressions of time and space, and quixotic human/machine figures combine Eastern and(...)
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Young painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan's art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of classical Japanese painting with the observant eye of a modern-day Peter Breughel and the humor and draftsmanship of a manga cartoonist. Yamaguchi's landscapes of the imagination, compressions of time and space, and quixotic human/machine figures combine Eastern and(...)
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The Art of Yamaguchi Akira
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Young painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan's art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of classical Japanese painting with the observant eye of a modern-day Peter Breughel and the humor and draftsmanship of a manga cartoonist. Yamaguchi's landscapes of the imagination, compressions of time and space, and quixotic human/machine figures combine Eastern and Western sensibilities and techniques into artwork that transcends exoticism. This beautiful volume collects the artist's work from the past decade, including several pieces never before published, allowing Western readers to share the delight of Japanese critics and audiences in this fresh, new view of the world. Also included are an introduction by art historian Yuji Yamashita, 80 pages of full-color illustrative plates, and a magnifying glass for enhanced viewing of painting details.
The Art of Yamaguchi Akira
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Young painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan's art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of classical Japanese painting with the observant eye of a modern-day Peter Breughel and the humor and draftsmanship of a manga cartoonist. Yamaguchi's landscapes of the imagination, compressions of time and space, and quixotic human/machine figures combine Eastern and Western sensibilities and techniques into artwork that transcends exoticism. This beautiful volume collects the artist's work from the past decade, including several pieces never before published, allowing Western readers to share the delight of Japanese critics and audiences in this fresh, new view of the world. Also included are an introduction by art historian Yuji Yamashita, 80 pages of full-color illustrative plates, and a magnifying glass for enhanced viewing of painting details.
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May 2005, Tokyo
May 2005, Tokyo
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The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation. Here, he speaks with curator, museum director, writer and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor of "The conversation series", about everything from the need for a(...)
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The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation. Here, he speaks with curator, museum director, writer and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor of "The conversation series", about everything from the need for a(...)
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January 2007, Köln, New York
January 2007, Köln, New York
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John Chamberlain / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 2
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The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation. Here, he speaks with curator, museum director, writer and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor of "The conversation series", about everything from the need for a redesigned hospital gown, to his relationship to Donald Judd and Marfa, Texas, to "recipes" for making art, his years spent in the Navy, becoming a hairdresser in order to meet women, being cast as a drunken womanizer by Black Mountain College scholars, Andy Warhol's Factory, John Waters, Robert Creeley and even Chamberlains, the restaurant he owned with his son in the mid-1990s.
John Chamberlain / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 2
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The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation. Here, he speaks with curator, museum director, writer and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist, editor of "The conversation series", about everything from the need for a redesigned hospital gown, to his relationship to Donald Judd and Marfa, Texas, to "recipes" for making art, his years spent in the Navy, becoming a hairdresser in order to meet women, being cast as a drunken womanizer by Black Mountain College scholars, Andy Warhol's Factory, John Waters, Robert Creeley and even Chamberlains, the restaurant he owned with his son in the mid-1990s.
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January 2007, Köln, New York
January 2007, Köln, New York
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The works in The Drawing Book, by artists, architects, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers and thinkers of all descriptions, attest to the versatility and immediacy of drawing. From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity. The(...)
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The works in The Drawing Book, by artists, architects, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers and thinkers of all descriptions, attest to the versatility and immediacy of drawing. From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity. The(...)
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The drawing book a survey of drawing : The primary means of expression
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The works in The Drawing Book, by artists, architects, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers and thinkers of all descriptions, attest to the versatility and immediacy of drawing. From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity. The recent prominence of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Chris Ofili, Rachel Whiteread, Ellen Gallagher, and a host of others who use drawing as a final means of expression, is addressed in both the works shown and essays by curators Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, and art historian Charles Darwent. The Drawing Book takes us on a journey through five themes -- measurement, nature, the city, dreams, and the body. Each is richly illustrated with a diverse range of images, from the old masters, through great Modernist pieces by Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, and on to the contemporary artists who are reviving drawing today. The Drawing Book provides a new and unique approach to an age old medium.
The drawing book a survey of drawing : The primary means of expression
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The works in The Drawing Book, by artists, architects, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers and thinkers of all descriptions, attest to the versatility and immediacy of drawing. From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity. The recent prominence of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Chris Ofili, Rachel Whiteread, Ellen Gallagher, and a host of others who use drawing as a final means of expression, is addressed in both the works shown and essays by curators Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, and art historian Charles Darwent. The Drawing Book takes us on a journey through five themes -- measurement, nature, the city, dreams, and the body. Each is richly illustrated with a diverse range of images, from the old masters, through great Modernist pieces by Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, and on to the contemporary artists who are reviving drawing today. The Drawing Book provides a new and unique approach to an age old medium.
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June 2007, London
June 2007, London
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Maya Lin : boundaries
Maya Lin : boundaries
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site(...)
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site(...)
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Maya Lin : boundaries
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture - the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field - her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book : an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. "Boundaries" is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth - a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture - the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field - her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book : an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. "Boundaries" is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.
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September 2006, New York
September 2006, New York
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