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Kenneth Baker Lynne Cooke

The Lightning Field

Kenneth Baker,  Lynne Cooke

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English
Yale University Press
09 December 2008
Non-graphic art forms
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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Imprint:   Yale University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 181mm,  Spine: 2mm
Weight:   658g
ISBN:   9780300138948
ISBN 10:   0300138946
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

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