Light in Art: Artists’ Writings – Paperback

From Loe Fuller to Rosa Barba, by way of Lszl Moholy-Nagy, Anthony McCall, Nancy Holt, and Olafur Eliasson, this anthology brings together the writings of thirty-two modern and contemporary artists for whom light has played a major role. At once a physical phenomenon and a subjective experience, light gradually became an artistic medium of expression in its own right, appearing in turn as colour, matter, projections, or the source of an atmosphere or a sensation, therefore constituting one of the subtlest, yet no less essential, threads of artistic modernity.

Arranged chronologically, the illustrated selection of texts situates each artist within their historical context and together presents the case for light being at the heart of the dematerialisation of the modern artistic experience. In bringing periods, practices, and media into dialogue, this volume offers an unprecedented journey through the collections of the Pompidou, tracing a singular history of the uses and metamorphoses of light in art.