Author: Heil, Heinrich; Uerscheln, Gabriele; Abate, Claudio
Title: James Lee Byars: I Give You Genius
Description: Köln / New York, Distributed Art Publishers / Walter Konig, 2011. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with illustrated jacket. [112] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm. The catalogue published in connection with the exhibition by the Benrath Palace and Park Foundation shows objects and spatial installations by the conceptual and performance artist James Lee Byars. The photographer Claudio Abate proves to be a congenial observer, subtly sensing the idea in the architecture of the exhibition venue, following the lines of perfect axes and photographically realizing the dialogue between space and artwork. The canon of forms of Byars' sculptures includes cubes, spheres, cylinders, pyramids and stars, which have symbolic value. Materials and colors, especially white marble, velvet, black and red, are also intended to emphasize the semantic level. Byars associated the 'gold background' with the intangible, the absolute or the spiritual, which visually exaggerated the perfect form, the sphere. Parallel English/German text. VG/VG-. Jacket has some light general wear, book itself is clean and unmarked.

Keywords: American Architecture ; Byars, James Lee ; ;


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