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Bas Jan Ader

Death Is Elsewhere

By: Alexander Dumbadze

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Bas Jan Ader

Death Is Elsewhere

By: Alexander Dumbadze

On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist’s legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader’s art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader’s tremendous relevance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader’s work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader’s engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.

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University of Chicago Press

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022603867X

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9780226038674

How Does it Feel?

Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture

By: Ruba Katrib,Alexander Blair Dumbadze,Jenni Sorkin,Lars Bang Larsen,Josh Kline,Mika Yoshitake,Liz Glynn,Lawrence Abu Hamdan,Jeanine Oleson,Jennifer Teets,Aki Sasamoto,Chus Martínez Domínguez

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How Does it Feel?

Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture

By: Ruba Katrib,Alexander Blair Dumbadze,Jenni Sorkin,Lars Bang Larsen,Josh Kline,Mika Yoshitake,Liz Glynn,Lawrence Abu Hamdan,Jeanine Oleson,Jennifer Teets,Aki Sasamoto,Chus Martínez Domínguez

How Does it Feel? is the third book in the series, Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture, produced in partnership with SculptureCenter, New York. This volume examines the sensory aspects of contemporary sculpture. Taking into account artists who incorporate touch, smell, and taste in their work, the various contributions investigate experiential factors that are beyond the three-dimensional. Comprising of essays, short reflections, and illustrated throughout, How Does it Feel? is a comprehensive and insightful exploration, with contributions from an international assemblage of artists, writers, art historians and curators working in the field. Following on from the first two highly successful books Where is Production? and What About Power?, this title adds further insight into the dynamic sphere of contemporary sculpture. Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture is one of many partnership series of books published by Black Dog Publishing, with others including titles with Art in General, Royal College of Art, London, and Fondazione Antonio Ratti.

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1910433683

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