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The Lightning Field Hardback - 2008

by Kenneth Baker; Preface by Lynne Cooke

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A profoundly timely and moving personal essay by one of America's leading art critics

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the 20th century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) installed in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be explored on foot, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced over an extended period of time.

Critic Kenneth Baker visited The Lightning Field numerous times over the course of the past 30 years in order to write this text. Inspired and challenged by this remarkable artwork, Baker speculates on the course of our contemporary human condition. But, rather than building on ideas in narrative sequence, he deploys quotation to effect multiple perspectives and points of view. Baker's citations and elegantly crafted prose are arrayed--in a metaphorical parallel to De Maria's choreographing of the vast landscape of the American Southwest--to create a compelling text.

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  • Title The Lightning Field
  • Author Kenneth Baker; Preface by Lynne Cooke
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, U.S.A.
  • Publication date March 28, 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780300138948 / 0300138946
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 7.13 x 0.76 in (24.13 x 18.11 x 1.93 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects De Maria, Walter, De Maria, Walter - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008002510
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.2

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Kenneth Baker is art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Lynne Cooke is curator at Dia Art Foundation.

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