A Guggenheim Museum Publication Dan Flavin (1933-1996) was hailed for his pioneering use of light and color divorced from traditional artistic contexts. Employing only commercial fluorescent lights, Flavin devised a radical new art form that circumvented the limits imposed by frames, pedestals, and other conventional means of display. His embrace of the unadorned fluorescent light as an aesthetic object placed him at the forefront of Minimal art. This book, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, draws upon the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's extensive holdings of Flavin's work, which includes representative examples of each of the formats he developed over the course of his career. Flooded with color on every page, this volume provides a wide-ranging view of Flavin's work and intellectual thought, bringing together contributions by a number of critics and art historians, and including excerpted writings by the artist. illustrated in full color, 9 1/4 x 11 3/4" J. FIONA RAGHEB is associate curator for Collections and Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Nov. 6, 1999-Feb. 13, 2000

Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light

Arts & Photography

Flavin, Dan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Best known for his fluorescent light installations, Dan Flavin was also an avid draftsman.

Dan Flavin : Drawing

et.al.

Isabelle Dervaux

Library

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Dan Flavin (1933-1996) is considered one of the most important and innovative artists of the late twentieth century. The simplicity and systematic character of his extraordinary work, along with his relentless exploration and ingenious discovery of an art of light, established him as a progenitor and chief exponent of Minimalism. Uniquely situated outside the mediums of painting and sculpture, the majority of Flavinâs work after 1963 consists of art made from light.
This landmark bookthe first retrospective publication of Flavinâs art since 1969includes around 45 of the artistâs most important light works, beginning with a pivotal series of constructed boxes with attached incandescent or fluorescent lights, called icons,â made from 1961 to 1963. Works spanning Flavinâs career are discussed in depth, including examples that integrate light with the surrounding space and show the particular characteristics of blended fluorescent light, large-scale installations, and constructed corridors. The book also includes reproductions of Flavinâs drawings, which show his thought processes and working methods. 
New scholarship and interpretation of Flavinâs work appears in the form of three critical essays by experts, an extensive chronology, comprehensive bibliography, and exhibition history. In addition, Flavinâs seminal text `. . . in daylight or cool white.â an autobiographical sketch,â originally published in Artforum in1965, is included. 
Exquisitely designed and produced, with many new stunning color reproductions, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective capturesthe brilliance of this artistâs contribution to and challenges of the art world and will be the authoritative volume on Flavin for years to come.

Dan Flavin: A Retrospective

Govan, Michael

Bell, Tiffany

Smith, Brydon

Dia Art Foundation

Dan Flavin

Lavishly illustrated gatefold paperback catalog.

O'Hara, Frank

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Gallery exhibition - works of colored fluorescent light by noted American minimalist 20th century light sculptor Dan Flavin (1933-1996). Using colored fluorescent light fixtures, the artist created sculptures and installations, examples of which can be seen in museums around the world

Dan Flavin: Tall cornered fluorescent light : December 3, 1993-January 15, 1994, Pace Gallery, New York City

PaceWildenstein Staff (editors)

PaceWildenstein

Showcasing Dan Flavin’s “corner,” “barrier,” and “corridor” works, this catalogue explores the artist’s core sculptural vocabulary and how his use of fluorescent light forged a new relationship between the art object and its surrounding architecture. This publication examines how Flavin’s light works, which he described as “situations,” function in space, occupying key positions that highlight how the rooms themselves are constructed. The exhibition is not only historically significant, as it mines early explorations in Flavin’s practice, but many of the works are reproduced for the first time in plates that accurately capture their colors. Published on the occasion of the 2015 eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, Corners, Barriers and Corridors takes as its point of departure the artist’s influential show, corners, barriers and corridors in fluorescent light from Dan Flavin, presented at the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1973. Above all, the photography reveals the unexpected and powerful interplay between the light of neighboring pieces and the space—the way the walls, floor, and various hues mingle to form unpredicted palettes that reveal what Michael Auping, following Donald Judd, calls the “exoskeleton.” These works, with their immediate relationship to architecture, not only function as color experiments but as structural explorations in light, and in his essay, Auping explores how Flavin’s investigations of corners, barriers, and corridors became an essential part of the way the artist understood space. This publication also features rarely seen photographs of Flavin installing his historic 1973 exhibition, as well as detailed notes by Alexandra Whitney about the works included in the St. Louis presentation. Designed by McCall Associates, in close collaboration with the Estate of Dan Flavin, this catalogue presents an especially significant body of work in a completely new way and offers a vital historical perspective on Flavin’s practice.

Dan Flavin: Corners, Barriers and Corridors

History & Criticism

David Zwirner Books

Described by fellow artist Mel Bochner as “one of the first artists to make use of a basically progressional procedure,” influential Minimalist artist Dan Flavin was known for his systematic arrangement of color and light. This major monograph was published on the occasion of Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions—the first exhibition of the artist’s work held in 2009 at David Zwirner in New York since the gallery announced its representation of Dan Flavin. Featuring over fifty full-color plates of exemplary works made between 1963 and 1990, in addition to a comprehensive selection of installation views, archival photographs, and documents, this publication carefully examines Flavin’s use of progressions and serial structures, ideas that were central to his practice throughout his career. It also describes how his manipulations of color and light were aspects of his work that not only led to it being characterized as Minimal art but came to define and influence Conceptual artistic practices. Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions includes new scholarship by noted Flavin scholar and curator Tiffany Bell (author of the artist’s catalogue raisonné), Anne Rorimer, Richard Shiff, and Alexandra Whitney; an interview with Dan Graham; and a facsimile of the original catalogue from Flavin’s 1967–1968 exhibition alternating pink and ‘gold,’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Additional context is provided by a detailed illustrated chronology, which documents historical exhibitions of Flavin’s work.

Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions

Reference

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Installationen in Fluoreszierendem Licht 1989-1993 (English and German Edition)

Edition Cantz

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