Arts of wonder
Subtitle: enchanting secularity : Walter de Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy
By: Jeffrey L. Kosky
Series: Religion and postmodernism; Religion and postmodernism
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780226451060; 9780226451084
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Art and religion; Light art; Blur Building (Expo.02, Switzerland); Light in art; Criticism and interpretation; Earthworks (Art)
Description: Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A picture of modern disenchantment; title: Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field: seeing a flickering light; title: Diller + Scofidio, Blur: the cloud that does not part when we see the light; title: James Turrell, Works with light: seeing the light that does not illuminate; title: James Turrell, Skyspaces: opening an eye to the sky; title: Andy Goldsworthy, Works: to dwell creatively with earth and sky, wind and water.