Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere
Book Details
Author(s)Alexander Dumbadze
PublisherUniversity Of Chicago Press
ISBN / ASIN022603853X
ISBN-139780226038537
AvailabilityIn stock. Usually ships within 2 to 3 days.
Sales Rank1,348,201
CategoryArt
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
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