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Negotiating rapture : the power of art to transform lives / Richard Francis ; with essays by Homi K. Bhabha [et al.] ; with contributions by Yve-Alain Bois [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago, Ill. : Museum of Contemporary Art, c1996.Description: xiii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9780933856400
  • 0933856407
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Contents:
Prologue / Joseph R. Shapiro
Introduction / Kevin E. Consey
Aura and agora: on negotiating rapture and speaking between / Homi K. Bhabha
The fable of cortesan, the ascetic, and the king: Erotic, religious, and aethetic rapture in India / Lee Siegel
Secret wisdom and self-effacement: The spiritual in art in the modern age / David Morgan
The supposition of the aura: The now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman, trnaslated by Jane Marie Todd
Negotiating rapture: A travel guide to the exhitibion / Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw -- 'Saint John the Baptist in the Desert', Bill Viola
Saints and their journeys / Martin E. Marty -- Tibetan Mandala, Ad Reinhardt, Thomas Merton, John Cage
Spiritual matters: Zen in American art / Helen Tworkov -- Agnes Martin, 'The Rape of Ganymede', Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Albrecht Dürer, Schematic diagram for an amulet
Notes on Kabbalistic ideas and imagery / John Hallmark Neff -- Anselm Kiefer, James Lee Bryars, Nicolas Poussin, Henry David Thoreau
Barnett Newman's Sublime=Tragedy / Yve-Alain Bois -- Barnett Newman, Native American art and the nuclear experiment
Shamanism / Wendy Doniger -- Bruce Nauman, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright
"Almost nothing" / Kenneth Frampton -- Joseph Beuys, Indian 'Shamsa', Shirazeh Houshiary
Jalaluddin Rumi - Mystic supreme of the Islamic world / Annemarie Schimmel -- Antonio Canova's tomb sculpture, Lucio Fontana, Epilogue: Bruce Nauman, 'Window or Wall Sign'
Summary: Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans, Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Bill Viola. These artists are exhibited together in order to reveal their diverse expressions of a shared longing: the basic and enduring human urge to transcend the ordinary and experience the Sublime. Juxtaposed with a range of works by Old Masters and examples from architecture, literature, and anthropology, the works in Negotiating Rapture show how artists, as creators, move beyond common experience to a state approaching religious ecstasy and how we, as viewers, can in turn discover a deeper involvement in our own humanity. Major essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Georges Didi-Huberman, David Morgan and Lee Siegel, as well as a series of focused contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Wendy Doniger, Kenneth Frampton, Martin E. Marty, John Hallmark Neff, Annemarie Schimmel, and Helen Tworkov consider how rapture resonate's both in a cultural context and within the experience of a single human being. A "Travel Guide to Negotiating Rapture," written by Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw, explores how each artist in the exhibition has sought to define rapture and, by guiding the viewer/reader, initiates scrutiny of transformative experiences.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Gold 704.948 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00988

Exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 21 June-20 Oct. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue / Joseph R. Shapiro

Introduction / Kevin E. Consey

Aura and agora: on negotiating rapture and speaking between / Homi K. Bhabha

The fable of cortesan, the ascetic, and the king: Erotic, religious, and aethetic rapture in India / Lee Siegel

Secret wisdom and self-effacement: The spiritual in art in the modern age / David Morgan

The supposition of the aura: The now, the then, and modernity / Georges Didi-Huberman, trnaslated by Jane Marie Todd

Negotiating rapture: A travel guide to the exhitibion / Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw -- 'Saint John the Baptist in the Desert', Bill Viola

Saints and their journeys / Martin E. Marty -- Tibetan Mandala, Ad Reinhardt, Thomas Merton, John Cage

Spiritual matters: Zen in American art / Helen Tworkov -- Agnes Martin, 'The Rape of Ganymede', Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Albrecht Dürer, Schematic diagram for an amulet

Notes on Kabbalistic ideas and imagery / John Hallmark Neff -- Anselm Kiefer, James Lee Bryars, Nicolas Poussin, Henry David Thoreau

Barnett Newman's Sublime=Tragedy / Yve-Alain Bois -- Barnett Newman, Native American art and the nuclear experiment

Shamanism / Wendy Doniger -- Bruce Nauman, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright

"Almost nothing" / Kenneth Frampton -- Joseph Beuys, Indian 'Shamsa', Shirazeh Houshiary

Jalaluddin Rumi - Mystic supreme of the Islamic world / Annemarie Schimmel -- Antonio Canova's tomb sculpture, Lucio Fontana, Epilogue: Bruce Nauman, 'Window or Wall Sign'

Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans, Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Bill Viola. These artists are exhibited together in order to reveal their diverse expressions of a shared longing: the basic and enduring human urge to transcend the ordinary and experience the Sublime. Juxtaposed with a range of works by Old Masters and examples from architecture, literature, and anthropology, the works in Negotiating Rapture show how artists, as creators, move beyond common experience to a state approaching religious ecstasy and how we, as viewers, can in turn discover a deeper involvement in our own humanity. Major essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Georges Didi-Huberman, David Morgan and Lee Siegel, as well as a series of focused contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Wendy Doniger, Kenneth Frampton, Martin E. Marty, John Hallmark Neff, Annemarie Schimmel, and Helen Tworkov consider how rapture resonate's both in a cultural context and within the experience of a single human being. A "Travel Guide to Negotiating Rapture," written by Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw, explores how each artist in the exhibition has sought to define rapture and, by guiding the viewer/reader, initiates scrutiny of transformative experiences.