Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions

FLAVIN, Dan, Tiffany Bell, Alexandra Whitney, Richard Shiff, and Anne Rorimer

ISBN 10: 3869301465 / ISBN 13: 9783869301464

Published by Steidl and Thames & Hudson, Gottingen, Germany and London, 2010

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 155 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran November 5 through December 19, 2009. Features texts by Tiffany Bell, Alexandra Whitney, Richard Shiff, and Anne Rorimer. Includes numerous color illustrations, a checklist and list of previous exhibitions, and a bibliography. A very near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Seller Inventory # 203311

Synopsis:

Described by fellow artist Mel Bochner as “one of the first artists to make use of a basically progressional procedure,” influential Minimalist artist Dan Flavin was known for his systematic arrangement of color and light. This major monograph was published on the occasion of Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions—the first exhibition of the artist’s work held in 2009 at David Zwirner in New York since the gallery announced its representation of Dan Flavin. Featuring over fifty full-color plates of exemplary works made between 1963 and 1990, in addition to a comprehensive selection of installation views, archival photographs, and documents, this publication carefully examines Flavin’s use of progressions and serial structures, ideas that were central to his practice throughout his career. It also describes how his manipulations of color and light were aspects of his work that not only led to it being characterized as Minimal art but came to define and influence Conceptual artistic practices. Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions includes new scholarship by noted Flavin scholar and curator Tiffany Bell (author of the artist’s catalogue raisonné), Anne Rorimer, Richard Shiff, and Alexandra Whitney; an interview with Dan Graham; and a facsimile of the original catalogue from Flavin’s 1967–1968 exhibition alternating pink and ‘gold,’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Additional context is provided by a detailed illustrated chronology, which documents historical exhibitions of Flavin’s work.

About the Author: From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that is installed on a diagonal on the wall—a work which marks the artist’s first use of fluorescent light alone, until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially-available fluorescent lamps to create installations, or “situations” as he preferred to call them, of light and color. Through the construction of light, Flavin was able to literally establish and redefine space.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions
Publisher: Steidl and Thames & Hudson, Gottingen, Germany and London
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.