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Art styles --- Art --- earthworks [sculpture] --- art [discipline] --- Turrell, James --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- United States of America

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"The only comprehensive book on James Turrell is back in print. This definitive monograph presents James Turrell's diverse and extraordinary work--from his Mendota studio days to his monumental Roden Crater. Turrell began using light as a sculptural medium in 1966, and through his sculptures and architectural interventions he is continually asking us to "go inside and greet the light"--evoking the meditative practices of his Quaker upbringing. A critical figure emerging from Los Angeles's exploding art scene of the 1960s, Turrell draws from aviation, psychology, and astronomy in his art. Through ten chapters that survey his various bodies of work, enhanced by thoughtful essays and an insightful interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell's oeuvre-from his early geometric projections, prints, and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to two-dimensional experiments with holograms. It also features an in-depth look at Roden Crater--through models, plans, photographs and drawings--that reveals the power and beauty of his magnum opus and its surrounding landscape near Flagstaff, Arizona. Featuring stunning, specially commissioned photography by Florian Holzherr, this is the authoritative book on the pioneering artist and his landmark work" (Provided by publisher.)

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:The collection of scholarly essays "Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths" accompanies an international traveling exhibition of the same title organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA. For more than two millennia, ironworking has shaped African cultures in the most fundamental ways. "Striking Iron" reveals the history of invention and technical sophistication that led African blacksmiths to transform one of Earth's most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry. The contributions of diverse scholars examine how blacksmiths' virtuosic works can harness the powers of the natural and spiritual worlds, effect change and ensure protection, prestige, and status, assist with life's challenges and transitions, and enhance the efficacies of sacred acts such as ancestor veneration, healing, fertility, and prophecy. The publication features full-color photographic reproductions of over 225 artworks from across the African continent, focusing on the region south of the Sahara and covering a time period spanning early archaeological evidence to the present day. These works include blades, currencies, diverse musical instruments, body adornments, ritual accoutrements, tools, weapons, and other important iron objects. Following its presentation at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles the exhibition "Striking Iron" travels to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris"--Provided by publisher.

Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- forging [metal forming] --- blacksmithing --- Africa --- Ironwork --- Art metal-work --- Blacksmiths --- Artist-blacksmiths