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SIX PARAGRAPHS ON DAN FLAVIN
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1. For years I took Donald Judd at his word: that Minimalism is absolutely opposed to pictorial illusionism and virtual space (why, I thought foolishly, not take a literalist literally?). But is this account true to the art of Judd, let alone that of his friend Dan Flavin, early or late?1 What is the fate of the celebrated opposition between "specific object" and illusionist space in the aftermath of Minimalism-and the role of Flavin in that story? Opposed to illusionism, might Minimalism als...
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SIX PARAGRAPHS ON DAN FLAVIN
Artforum
; 1. For years I took Donald Judd at his word: that Minimalism is absolutely opposed to pictorial illusionism and virtual space (why, I thought foolishly, not take a literalist literally But is this account true to the art of Judd, let alone that of his friend Dan Flavin, early or late?1 What is the
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LIGHT SPEED: DAN FLAVIN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Artforum
; LIGHT SPEED: DAN FLAVIN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY ICONIC SUBLIMATION A retrospective at the National Gallery of Art is the closest thing the American art world has to an imperial investiture, and Dan Flavin's Washington, DC, survey was no exception. Emphatically attesting to Minimalism's current
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. . . And We're Moths; Dan Flavin's Fluorescent Tubes Create A Buzz With Their Brilliance and Depth
The Washington Post
; American sculptor Dan Flavin made impressive art. His installations of fluorescent tubes dazzle the eyes and confound the senses. One Flavin is a four-foot-high wall of bright green bars of light, meant to extend the length of whatever gallery it's shown in. Once your eyes and brain have stretched
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The incredible lightness of Flavin VISUAL ART
The Independent on Sunday
; Dan Flavin Hayward LONDON It's hard not to feel a twinge of pity for Dan Flavin's conservators, faced as they are with an insoluble ethical problem. Flavin, famously, spent 30 years making art from fluorescent strips: standard two-, four-, six- and eight-foot tubes in a range of 10 standard
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AFTER A LATE START, FLAVIN FINDS HE HAS A TALENT FOR BASKETBALL
The Boston Globe
; Growing up in his Lake Street neighborhood in Weymouth, Mark Flavin's fantasy was to play for the Boston Red Sox. But he grew out of those dreams. In fact, physically, he just kept growing. Between eighth and ninth grades, Flavin hit a growth spurt: "I went from something like 6 feet to 6-5 in one
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Arts Etc: visual art - How I found heaven on the tube Dan Flavin Serpentine Gallery LONDON
The Independent - London
; A wonderful thing - no, sod it, a miraculous thing - happens when you walk from the Serpentine Gallery's rotunda into the room containing Dan Flavin's untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) (1973). The piece, a wall built from Flavin's trademark neon strip-lights, divides the
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Flavin got the best `Tip' with Howard ; He's finally able to bring play to stage
The Boston Globe
; GLOBE SOUTH 1 As a successful television personality, Dick Flavin of Quincy has delivered more than his share of humorous ditties, poems, and commentaries. And he always had a knack for telling a story - such as his "Teddy at the Bat" tribute to Ted Williams. Flavin performed that one at Fenway
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Optical manoeuvres in the light In 1963 the New York sculptor Dan Flavin found his ideal material: the fluorescent tube. His retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery is highly illuminating, says Tom Lubbock
The Independent - London
; Dan Flavin's art is beautiful and perhaps that is all it is. It is certainly beautifully installed. The Serpentine Gallery has seldom shown off a body of work, and itself, so well as it does now. But then, high modernism is what it's made for. This exhibition is basically a condensed retrospective
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Beneath artist Dan Flavin's minimalist sensibilities lies a much larger perspective
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... created religions around the sun. The very words we're forced to use to describe the effects of light -- glow, aura, shine -- bear news of the beyond. Specifically in Flavin's work, light creates indeterminate spaces that suggest, if not infinity itself, a clear ...
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Flavin: I quit; Resignation: DCCs Jim Flavin.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: Alan Sherry BUSINESSMAN Jim Flavin has resigned from his position as executivechairman of DCC as a result of his role in an insider trading dispute withfruit importer Fyffes. Last July the Supreme Court found that Mr Flavin had insider information onFyffes when he sold DCCs 10 per cent
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