Clifford Ross: Through the Looking Glass - Hardcover

Goldberger, Paul; Ross, Clifford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3777453013 ISBN 13: 9783777453019

Publisher: Hirmer Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Much like Alice Liddell in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, multimedia artist Clifford Ross looks beyond the natural world to uncover another world bound only by the imagination, in which images are reversed and landscapes reimagined in ravishing color. A digital visionary, Ross uses methods old and new to produce exceptionally beautiful and radically redesigned conceptions of reality.

In 2009, Ross was commissioned in collaboration with the fine art manufacturers at Franz Mayer of Munich to create a monumental public art project for the US Federal Courthouse in Austin, Texas. The culmination of this collaboration is a colorful twenty-eight-foot-square stained glass wall with built-in hydraulic doors opening into a large event space. This book documents the long process, which brought together architects, engineers, craftsmen, and government officials and combined centuries-old construction techniques with twenty-first-century digital technology.

With one hundred full-color illustrations from all phases of the wall’s design and construction, ranging from photographs to pencil sketches and computer renderings, this book charts the creation of a modern monument.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Goldberger is a Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic for the New Yorker, where he has written the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column since 1997. He holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at Parsons the New School for Design, where he was formerly dean.

Review:

"Most visitors to the eastern end of New York's Long Island fix their gaze on the area's soigné townships, outsized mansions, or dune-lined beaches. Photographer Clifford Ross, though, looks out to sea--and captures it with sculptural clarity." --Condé Nast Traveler

"...Wave Music, a collection of Poseidon's blanket photographed during hurricanes, delivers a series of natural mini-masterpieces ratifying a perfect balance of noise and minimalism. In his color-absent photographic essay, you often forget you're looking at water -- Ross captures both the crisp edges of the wave before crashing and the carefully orchestrated slosh." -- Andrea Dimpfl --Flaunt Magazine

"Taken cumulatively, there is an overt visual decrescendo at play here. Powerful chaos, quiet contemplation, enigmatic abstraction. These rich ideas, presented in a broad movement coursing throughout the book, are at the heart of Ross' project." --Photo-Eye

"The images in this study of the sea by Clifford Ross are powerful, dynamic, and mesmerizing." -- Ben Brain --Amateur Photographer

"Shot with conventional handheld cameras, the photographs capture huge, frothy swells as they crush the sand beneath them. Ross did not come by these pictures easily--he waded into the roiling surf, tethered to a lifeline--yet they have a balanced, sculptural quality about them." -- Thomas Jackson --Forbes

About this edition

• Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3777453013
• ISBN 13: 9783777453019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176