Dan Flavin (19331996) 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 Flavin’s work after 1963 consists of art made from light.
This landmark bookthe first retrospective publication of Flavin’s art since 1969includes around 45 of the artist’s most important light works, beginning with a pivotal series of constructed boxes with attached incandescent or fluorescent lights, called icons,” made from 1961 to 1963. Works spanning Flavin’s 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 Flavin’s drawings, which show his thought processes and working methods.
New scholarship and interpretation of Flavin’s work appears in the form of three critical essays by experts, an extensive chronology, comprehensive bibliography, and exhibition history. In addition, Flavin’s seminal text . . . in daylight or cool white.’ an autobiographical sketch,” 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 artist’s contribution to and challenges of the art world and will be the authoritative volume on Flavin for years to come.

Dan Flavin: A Retrospective

Arts & Photography

Govan, Michael

Bell, Tiffany

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

Including and augmenting the exhibition catalogue on Dan Flavin’s art (see opposite page), this remarkable book features a complete catalogue of over 750 of the artist’s light works. Presenting all of Flavin’s lights together for the first time, this is the only publication to document the artist’s entire career. Flavin’s art has not been widely reproduced, and this definitive volume includes hundreds of images―featuring exquisite new photography―of well-known pieces as well as many rarely seen and unknown works. Each light work is illustrated by a beautiful color reproduction and/or a graphic diagram. Comprehensive information on each work, including title, date, medium, dimensions, edition, exhibition history, bibliography, and a brief discussion, reveals new insights into the artist’s working methods and provides an invaluable resource for students, scholars, dealers, and collectors.

Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961–1996

Brice Marden: Let the Painting Make You

Galvez, Paul

Gagosian / Rizzoli

After Matisse

Independent Curators Incorporated

Independent Curators

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.

Flavin, Dan

Smith, Brydon

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Dia Art Foundation

Words wait at painting’s gateWorks by Michael Venezia, born 1935 in Brooklyn, undoubtedly represent some of the most original artistic works of Minimalist Art. His »spray paintings« and »bars« duly follow the minimalist dictum of a spatialization of color and extension of the pictorial space. In contrast to Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, however, who chose the opposing path, namely to renounce painting entirely, Venezia devoted himself solely to painting. Inherent in his works are the characteristics of an aesthetic presence, as it can only be developed through painting: texture, paint application and processing. Michael Venezia, taking minimalism into consideration, performs a particular maneuver: he leads painting toward a condition of being a »specific object«, adding to the history of abstract expressionism a chapter on minimalism. This catalogue endeavors to assign Michael Venezia’s work its rightful place, from its beginnings right up until today. The careful presentation of the works is, therefore, interspersed with various autobiographical materials, as well as an entertaining and very informative interview with Michael Venezia by Tiffany Bell, herself known as an expert interpreter of Agnes Martin and Dan Flavin.Exhibition: Kunstverein Heilbronn, 6/2–29/5/2016  

Michael Venezia: Painting: Kat. Kunstverein Heilbronn

Löbke, Matthia

Venezia, Michael

History & Criticism

Snoeck Publishing Company

Throughout his 30-year career, the renowned Dublin-born artist Sean Scully has continually sought to reinvigorate abstract painting, and has succeeded in this attempt by finding ways through (rather than around) postwar American abstraction. Scully employs a reductive vocabulary of thick horizontal and vertical bands of color, which perform an interplay of mass, light and shadow, through which he reconciles the ordered character of early European Modernism, with its ideals of harmony and spirituality, and late American Modernism, with its use of less harmonious, expressionistic compositions. Scully has described this tension: "I'm trying to capture something that has a classical stillness and at the same time has enough emotion or dissonance to create an unresolved quality." This volume, published concurrently with an exhibition at New York's Galerie Lelong, features 22 recent paintings, including works from Scully's much-admired Wall of Light and Robe series, plus recent watercolors and drawings.

Sean Scully

Charta/Galerie Lelong, New York

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