Wolfgang Laib : a retrospective / Klaus Ottman ; with an essay by Margit Rowell ; and a conversation between the artist and Harald Szeemann.
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TextPublication details: New York ; American Federation of Arts and Hatje Cantz, 2000.Description: 203p. : ill. (chiefly col.)ISBN: - 3775709452
- 1885444141
- 730.92 LAI
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 730.92 LAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 39002000197633 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Wolfgang Laib's breathtaking and quietly beautiful artwork draws on the ritual life he leads in and with nature and its processes of becoming and forgetting. His works are composed of purely natural materials, collected and processed by the artist himself in the 70s, he created his first milk stone, and then moved on to sifting pollen into "color miracles" or piling it into "insurmountable mountains"; in the 80s, he began to incorporate rice into his pieces; and towards the end of the decade he began working in beeswax. This gorgeous retrospective of his work -- with texts by Klaus Ottman and Margit Rowell, and interview between the artist and Harold Szeeman -- offers us a key to fully appreciating his complex and transcendent body of work.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the American Fereration of Arts and held at the Hirshorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and five other institutions between Oct. 26, 2000 and Jan. 2003.
Includes bibliographical references.