Jan van Munster
Subtitle: Licht = Light = Licht
By: [Texte, Peter Lodermeyer ; Herausgeberin und Redaktion, Eleonoor Jap Sam
Publisher: Jap Sam Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Heijningen, The Netherlands]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9789490322250
Subjects: Catalogs; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Licht; Light
Description: Electric light as a theme and 'material' (in the broadest sense) of art plays an important role in the oeuvre of Dutch artist Jan van Munster (1939). Since the 1970s, and in particular since developing his Brainwaves (from 1997 on), many of his sculptures work with sources of light or may be described as illuminants radiating into the surrounding space. This book for the first time comprehensively documents the extremely heterogeneous group of van Munster's works with light, thus impressively demonstrating the significance and the diverse use of light in the work of the sculptor--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-168).

Dutch, English and German.