“Color is the Pain of Light” – Toronto Public Library illuminates Light Art Books
Recently we had a university student asking for books on Light Art. She was visiting from Montreal during reading week. In in a very studious (and admirable!) manner she came to the Toronto Reference Library to do some research.
Why not come, read and enjoy some of the beautiful, substantial and stimulating books on Light Art.
Phenomenal : California light, space, surface
Light art : Targetti Light Art Collection
Olafur Eliasson : your lighthouse : works with light 1991-2004
Steven Scott : luminous icons, 1999-2011
Light art from artificial light : light as a medium in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries
When I was first living on my own I had an old school answering machine. Every week I would record a new message on the tape cassette – this technology is so obsolete now many people now won't even know about it. Once, while loudly playing a song by the Violent Femmes, I quoted Goethe's phrase "colour is the pain of light" as my message. It seemed cool and avant garde – needless to say I got a lot of hangups and soon tired of being that painfully hip.
I won't say I'm hipper or cooler than Richard Meier but he, famous Pritzker winning architectural genius, also famously quoted the phrase as part of his acceptance speech for the award.
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Now this is an intriguing blog! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for taking the time to comment. Bill