Walter De Maria : The lightning field /
Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field presents never-before-seen photographs of this land art masterpiece and its surrounding western New Mexico landscape. Photographer John Cliett was commissioned by Walter De Maria and Dia Art Foundation to document this enigmatic artwork over two seasons in 1978 a...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dia Art Foundation,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field presents never-before-seen photographs of this land art masterpiece and its surrounding western New Mexico landscape. Photographer John Cliett was commissioned by Walter De Maria and Dia Art Foundation to document this enigmatic artwork over two seasons in 1978 and 1979, but until now nearly all the resulting shots remained in the artist's archives. Tracing the course of a typical twenty-four hour visit to the site, the selection of images shows, for the first time, the rich complexity of site and land. This publication also includes the artist's 1980 text on The Lightning Field, "Some Facts, Notes, Data, Information, Statistics and Statements," originally published in Artforum, a selection of unpublished primary documents from Dia's and the artist's archives, including the photographer's own notes and reports and an essay by Dia director Jessica Morgan on De Maria's complex relationship with photography. |
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| Item Description: | "This book was published to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field (1977), a permanent site-specific work in western New Mexico." |
| Physical Description: | 122 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 35 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780944521854 0944521851 |