DAN FLAVIN - Artforum
And if Flavin can at times be interpreted as a modern theologian working with neomedieval light, he can also be seen as a practitioner of an oppressively phallic technological power, a reading, proposed by Anna Chave (Arts, January 1990), that used for support the artist’s own reference to his first “sculpture” of a fluorescent tube at a ...
LIGHT SPEED: DAN FLAVIN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY - Artforum
10. Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Frank Stella, “New Nihilism or New Art?” moderated by Bruce Glaser, WBAI-FM, New York, February 1964, tape BB3394 (author transcript), Pacific Radio Archive. Flavin’s remarks came in response to Frank Stella’s charge that “fussiness” resulted from any asymmetrical composition. 11. Ibid. 12.
SIX PARAGRAPHS ON DAN FLAVIN - Artforum
2004年10月23日 · 8. “Dan Flavin Interviewed by Phyllis Tuchman” (1972), in Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective (New York: Dia Art Foundation; Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2004), 194. I am indebted to Bell for her expertise. 9. Ibid. 10. Dan Flavin: three installations in fluorescent light, 94. “Pepsi denigration” is a ...
A DAN FLAVIN RETROSPECTIVE IN OTTAWA - Artforum
An inscription around the base of the can reads “HOLY MOTHER LOADED WITH GRACE PLEASE HELP PLUNK SONJA-DAN FLAVIN-1963,” referring to the excellent artist and humorist, Ed Plunkett. One of the seminal arrangements produced by Flavin is his the nominal three (to William of Ockham) (1963/64), first shown in the 1964 Green Gallery exhibition.
Dan Flavin - Artforum
As a consequence, the achievement of Dan Flavin’s Untitled (Marfa project), 1996, permanently installed at the Chinati in October, is doubly impressive. The work, whose design was completed by Flavin shortly before his death in 1996, has no more difficulty cutting through the romantic, Land art–aesthetic fog generated by Marfa’s exotic ...
Minimalism and Critical Response - Artforum
Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Dan Flavin, she noted, “occupy to my eye some kind of intermediate position” among all the artists she was then considering. She felt that they were “more related in terms of a common sensibility than in terms of a common style.”
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin’s first West Coast presentation at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery has given him the opportunity to fulfill his wish to execute an all-white show. His art is the deployment of fluorescent tubing (cool white in this case) in various configurations which he carefully terms “image-objects.”
DAN FLAVIN’S “‘. . . IN DAYLIGHT OR COOL WHITE.’” - Artforum
Dan Flavin, “‘. . . in daylight or cool white.’ an autobiographical sketch.” Shown: Dan Flavin, the diagonal of May 25, 1963. A SOLITARY LAMP mounted on an aging, flaking studio wall: Shown this way, in an unprepossessing photograph, the diagonal of May 25, 1963 is both lowly and beatific. Accordingly, for the layout of Dan Flavin’s ...
Dan Flavin – Artforum
By Dan Flavin. Print December 1966. Features “… in daylight or cool white.” An Autobiographical ...
in daylight or cool white.” An Autobiographical Sketch
—Dan Flavin ————————— NOTES. 1. I used the word “icon” as descriptive, not of a strictly religious object, but of one that is based on a hierarchical relationship of electric light over, under, against and with a square-faced structure full of paint light. 2.