Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light - Softcover

Orgeman, Keely

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300215185 ISBN 13: 9780300215182

Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017

Synopsis

A long-overdue publication that restores Wilfred to the art-historical canon 

Lumia presents a long-overdue reevaluation of the groundbreaking artist Thomas Wilfred (1889–1968), whose unprecedented works prefigured light art in America. As early as 1919, many years before the advent of consumer television and video technology, Wilfred began experimenting with light as his primary artistic medium, developing the means to control and project unique compositions of colorful, undulating light forms, which he referred to collectively as lumia. Manifested as both live performances on a cinematic scale and self-contained structures, Wilfred’s innovative displays captivated audiences and influenced generations of artists to come. This publication, the first dedicated to Wilfred in over forty years, draws on the artist’s personal archives and includes a number of insightful essays that trace the development of his work and its relation to his cultural milieu. Featuring a foreword by the celebrated artist James Turrell, Lumia helps to secure Wilfred’s rightful place within the canon of modern art.
 


Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

Exhibition Schedule:

Yale University Art Gallery
(02/17/17–07/23/17)

Smithsonian American Art Museum
(10/06/17–01/07/18)

About this title

About the Author

Keely Orgeman is the Alice and Allan Kaplan Assistant Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300215185
• ISBN 13: 9780300215182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172