[Frameworks] texts on Light

[Gene Youngblood]

You might want to look at the literature on James Turrell, in my mind one of the great artists ever. For light as material, nothing comes close to “The Light Inside” at the Houston Art Museum

From: Esperanza Collado 
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 12:14 PM
To: Experimental Film Discussion List 
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] texts on Light

Thanks for your helpful indications, Jonathan and Lola. Some of the writings/works you mentioned are familiar to me, although probably not the exact pieces you are referring to. Jonathan, thanks for all the details, I'll have a look at the material available online by Gibson/Recoder and get back to you if I cant find much. I found Broughton's SEEING THE LIGHT on pdf. Here it is, in case you're interested:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54281438/Broughton-James-Seeing-Light
It seems quite similar to MAKING LIGHT OF IT, at least to your description, but will look for the latter too. All the references seem very inspiring indeed... Hope you're well too.
Lola, I will write to you shortly! 

Many thanks again, and all the best,

Esperanza.


2013/3/4 Jonathan Walley <walleyj at denison.edu>

  Dear Esperanza,

  Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder's artists' statements (many of which
  can be found online) typically deal with the nature of projected
  light. I have a few things they've written if you'd like me to send
  them to you.

  And Moholy's writings are absolutely relevant to this question.
  Richard Kostelanetz's collection of Moholy's writings (published in
  1970) is great: Moholy's essays "From Pigment to Light (1926),"
  "Light: a Medium of Plastic Expression (1923)," "Light: A New Medium
  of Expression (1939)," "Light Architecture (1936)," and "Problems of
  the Modern Film (1930)" are all worth reading in relation to light
  (projected and otherwise) as a material substance. James Broughton's
  book MAKING LIGHT OF IT (1977?), is filled with poetic meditations on
  light as substance. Not all of these are directly about light as
  sculptural matter, but they do treat light as something material, and
  so lay the groundwork for a more explicitly sculptural conception of
  light. They are also a pleasure to read.

  Hope you're well.
  Best,
  Jonathan


  On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Esperanza Collado
  <esperanzacollado1 at gmail.com> wrote:
  > Dear Frameworkers,
  >
  > Could you please recommend theory writings or artists' texts about projected
  > light or just light as a sculptural matter?
  > So far I can only think of McCall's writings and the Luminist Suprematism
  > article Karin Schneider wrote on Kubelka's work.
  >
  > many thanks,
  >
  > e.
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