Museum Associates/Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles (US), 2013
DelMonico Books, Prestel Verlag | Munich (DE), London (UK), New York (US), 2013
Ed. Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Jennifer MacNair Stitt and Phil Graziadei
304 pages (english)
ISBN 978-3-7913-5263-3 (trade)
ISBN 978-3-7913-6447-6 (museum)
USD 85.00 (LACMA Book Store)
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell’s incredibly diverse and exciting body of work - from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater.
Whether he’s projecting shapes on a flat wall or into the corner of a gallery space, James Turrell is perpetually asking us to «go inside and greet the light» - evoking his Quaker upbringing. In fact, all of Turrell’s work has been influenced by his life experiences with aviation, science, and psychology, and as a key player in Los Angeles’s exploding art scene of the 1960s.