Dan Flavin: Drawing
Publisher: The Morgan Library & Museum
Publication Date: 2012
With texts by Tiffany Bell, Isabelle Dervaux, and Jennifer Raab
This publication documents the first retrospective of the artist’s drawings, which was held at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, in 2012 (it then traveled to the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, in 2012-2013). The catalogue explores the central role that drawing played in Flavin’s practice, and includes essays by exhibition curator Isabelle Dervaux, noted Flavin scholar Tiffany Bell, and art historian Jennifer Raab. Excerpts from Flavin’s journal, in which he writes about his relationship to drawing, are published here for the first time. This richly illustrated catalogue features over 190 plates, including selections from the artist’s personal collection of nineteenth-century Japanese drawings, Hudson River School landscape studies, and drawings by other twentieth-century artists, from Piet Mondrian to Donald Judd.
Details
Publisher: The Morgan Library & Museum
Artist: Dan Flavin
Contributors: Tiffany Bell, Isabelle Dervaux, Jennifer Raab
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780875981628
Retail: $40
Status: Not Available
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 in (24.8 x 28.6 cm)
Pages: 220
Reproductions: Illustrated throughout
Artist and Contributors
Dan Flavin
From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)—a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on a wall—until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (b. 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 these light constructions, Flavin was able to at once establish and redefine space.
Tiffany Bell
Tiffany Bell is an independent art curator and writer. She is currently working as the editor of the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné and has just completed the first volume, a digital publication, which includes Martin’s paintings, constructions, and film (2017). She continues work on the second volume that will include Martin’s unique works on paper. She was recently co-curator of the 2015–2017 traveling retrospective of Agnes Martin’s art that visited the Tate Modern in London, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Previously, she was the director of the Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonné project, which resulted in the publication of Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961–1996 (2004), and served as curator for several museum and gallery exhibitions of Flavin’s lights, including Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions held at David Zwirner in 2009. Bell has taught in the art department at Pratt Institute and has worked for many years as a freelance curator and art critic with articles appearing in Art in America, Arts Magazine, and Artforum, among other publications.
Isabelle Dervaux
Jennifer Raab
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