Secret Universe 2 - Softcover

Dichter, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 386335088X ISBN 13: 9783863350888

Publisher: Walther König, Köln, 2012

Synopsis

The colorfully diagrammatic paintings of Paul Laffoley (born 1940) have won the artist and architect a devout cult following since the mid-1960s. From his one-room apartment in Boston (dubbed by him "the Boston Visionary Cell"), Laffoley has devised complex theories and fantastical scenarios on time travel, the fourth or fifth dimensions and cosmological, scientific and astrological questions, arranging his data in charts, maps and diagrams that combine text and image. These theories--which are first laid out in writing, and then transposed into graphic form--draw on the typologies of Jung and Blake, the theories of Goethe and the architectural writings of Buckminster Fuller and Frederick Kiesler, with whom Laffoley once collaborated. This volume is published in the Hamburger Bahnhof's new Secret Universe series, dedicated to artists who have gone unnoticed by established art discourses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 386335088X
• ISBN 13: 9783863350888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Kittelmann Udo, Dichter Claudia