Bas Jan Ader Death Is Elsewhere
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On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again.
Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist's legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader's tremendous relevance to contemporary art.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780226038537 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Imprint: | The University of Chicago Press |
Pub date: | 10 May 2013 |
DEWEY: | 709.2 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 190 |
Weight: | 518g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 236mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |