Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center. He participated in four sessions on painting at the Hans Hofmann School in New York in 1956, studied art history at Columbia University, and at the... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center. He participated in four sessions on painting at the Hans Hofmann School in New York in 1956, studied art history at Columbia University, and at the New School for Social Research. His sculpture concentrates on the placement of fittings that produce light within the work. He died in New York in 1996. Following is an excerpt from "New York Times" online, February 4, 2001:. Dan Flavin: The Last... Read full biography
Born in New York City, Dan Flavin created sculpture from everyday, industrial fluorescent lights and fitments. With shadows cast, they become something unto themselves---patterns of light, color and line---removed from the artist. He served in the meteorological branch of the United States Air Force and then at the National Weather Analysis Center. He participated in four sessions on painting at the Hans Hofmann School in New York in 1956, studied art history at Columbia University, and at the New School for Social Research. His sculpture concentrates on the placement of fittings that produce light within the work. He died in New York in 1996. Following is an excerpt from "New York Times" online, February 4, 2001:. Dan Flavin: The Last Great Art of the 20th Century, By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN. MARFA, Tex. -- THE last great work of 20th-century American art has just b... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (96)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art (Art Gallery of Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Cheetham, Mark; Matthew Teitelbaum, David Moos
120 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Dan Flavin A Retrospective
2004
Govan, Michael & Bell, Tiffany
0 pages (color)
Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961-1996
2004
Govan, Michael; Tiffany Bell
0 pages (color)
Dia: The Collection in Beacon
2003
M. Govan, L. Cooke
288 pages (color)
Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties
2001
Meyer, James
340 pages
Dan Flavin: Architecture of Light
2000
Ragheb, J Fiona (ed)
96 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Objects of Desire The Modern Still Life (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Rowell, Margit
232 pages (color)
Icons of Art The 20th Century
1997
Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann
216 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Investigating Modern Art
1996
Dawtry, Liz (others)
185 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
True Colors The Real Life of the Art World
1996
Haden-Guest, Anthony
344 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Joachimides, Christos (others)
490 pages (color)
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
1990
Benezra, Neal (editor)
312 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
The Story of Modern Art
1989
Lynton, Norbert
400 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Constructive Concepts:A History Constructive Art from Cubism to the Present
1989
Rotzler, Willy
332 pages (color)
Minimalism Art of Circumstance
1988
Baker, Kenneth
144 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Definitive Statements: American Art 1964-66 Brown University Department of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Plante, Michael; Christopher Campbell, Megan Fox, et all
181 pages
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Twentieth Century Artists on Art
1985
Ashton, Dore (Editor)
302 pages
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Sculpture in America (new and revised edition)
1984
Craven, Wayne
782 pages
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
Blam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Haskell, Barbara
160 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols)
1984
Lund Humphries
700 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marshall, Richard
124 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980
1982
Johnson, Ellen H (editor)
274 pages
Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors (Surrey Art Gallery)
1982
Young, Jane
32 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
1980
Barnett, Vivian Endicott
526 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Art Since Pop
1978
Walker, John
110 pages (color)
American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977
Ekdahl, Janis
260 pages
American Art in Belgium (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Societe des Expositions
175 pages (color)
200 Years of American Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Armstrong, Tom
336 pages (color)
Beyond Modern Art
1976
Gottlieb, Carla
434 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Modern Art and the Object A Century of Changing Values
1976
Johnson, Ellen H
240 pages
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
The Scene Reports on Post-Modern Art
1976
Tomkins, Calvin
272 pages
The Roots and Routes of Art in the 20th Century
1975
Cone, Michele
252 pages
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
1975
Legg, Alicia
84 pages (color)
A Decade of Sculpture The 1960s
1974
Busch, Julia
236 pages (color)
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
American Drawings 1963-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Solomon, Elke M
62 pages
American Art Third Quarter Century (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Van Der Marck, Jan
138 pages (color)
American Art of the 20th Century
1972
Hunter, Sam
487 pages (color)
Eroticism in Contemporary Art
1972
Kahmen, Volker
282 pages (color)
The De-definition of Art Action Art to Pop to Earthworks
1972
Rosenberg, Harold
256 pages
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Boston University
60 pages
New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Geldzahler, Henry
494 pages (color)
Plus by Minus, Today's Half Centu (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
88 pages
Minimal Art A Critical Anthology
1968
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
448 pages
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Light in Architecture and Art The Work of Dan Flavin