Light and Language: Nancy Holt with A.K. Burns, Matthew Day Jackson, Dennis McNulty, Charlotte Moth, and Katie Paterson
Light and Language brings Nancy Holt’s influential art and ideas in direct conversation with fives artists working today who, like Holt, recalibrate the limits of art.
Nancy Holt (1938-2014) was an artist who rethought the limits and the possibilities of art. She was a key member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, and an important and rare female voice in the groundbreaking 1960s and 70s New York art scene. For five decades she asked difficult questions about how we might try to understand our place in the world. Holt’s art continues to inspire and rethink the possibilities of what art can be, and where it can be found.
Light and Language was produced in a limited edition of 500 on the occasion of the 2021 exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts, and it features images of both the exhibition and the artworks. This is the first time Holt’s work has been seen with twenty-first-century artists who draw from her legacies. A.K. Burns, Matthew Day Jackson, Dennis McNulty, Charlotte Moth, and Katie Paterson were invited to select works that they felt resonated with Holt’s ideas of light and language.
In her poetic text “What Is Radiant,” Emily LaBarge takes a journey through the vibrations between the selected artists. William T. Carson writes a biography of Holt’s Electrical System, an immersive fountain of light that makes the invisible electrical power systems of Lismore Castle visible. Lisa Le Feuvre, curator of the exhibition, outlines the importance of light and language to the legacy of Holt’s work.
Published on occasion of the 2021 exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland.
Authors
William T. Carson, Emily LaBarge, Lisa Le Feuvre
Editors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Paul McAree
Specifications
Lismore Castle Arts, 2021
ISBN 97819196185
Hardback
82 pages
301 x 219 mm / 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches
Out of print
$30
Light and Language brings Nancy Holt’s influential art and ideas in direct conversation with fives artists working today who, like Holt, recalibrate the limits of art.
Nancy Holt (1938-2014) was an artist who rethought the limits and the possibilities of art. She was a key member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, and an important and rare female voice in the groundbreaking 1960s and 70s New York art scene. For five decades she asked difficult questions about how we might try to understand our place in the world. Holt’s art continues to inspire and rethink the possibilities of what art can be, and where it can be found.
Light and Language was produced in a limited edition of 500 on the occasion of the 2021 exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts, and it features images of both the exhibition and the artworks. This is the first time Holt’s work has been seen with twenty-first-century artists who draw from her legacies. A.K. Burns, Matthew Day Jackson, Dennis McNulty, Charlotte Moth, and Katie Paterson were invited to select works that they felt resonated with Holt’s ideas of light and language.
In her poetic text “What Is Radiant,” Emily LaBarge takes a journey through the vibrations between the selected artists. William T. Carson writes a biography of Holt’s Electrical System, an immersive fountain of light that makes the invisible electrical power systems of Lismore Castle visible. Lisa Le Feuvre, curator of the exhibition, outlines the importance of light and language to the legacy of Holt’s work.
Published on occasion of the 2021 exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland.
Authors
William T. Carson, Emily LaBarge, Lisa Le Feuvre
Editors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Paul McAree
Specifications
Lismore Castle Arts, 2021
ISBN 97819196185
Hardback
82 pages
301 x 219 mm / 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches
Out of print
$30
Light and Language brings Nancy Holt’s influential art and ideas in direct conversation with fives artists working today who, like Holt, recalibrate the limits of art.
Nancy Holt (1938-2014) was an artist who rethought the limits and the possibilities of art. She was a key member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements, and an important and rare female voice in the groundbreaking 1960s and 70s New York art scene. For five decades she asked difficult questions about how we might try to understand our place in the world. Holt’s art continues to inspire and rethink the possibilities of what art can be, and where it can be found.
Light and Language was produced in a limited edition of 500 on the occasion of the 2021 exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts, and it features images of both the exhibition and the artworks. This is the first time Holt’s work has been seen with twenty-first-century artists who draw from her legacies. A.K. Burns, Matthew Day Jackson, Dennis McNulty, Charlotte Moth, and Katie Paterson were invited to select works that they felt resonated with Holt’s ideas of light and language.
In her poetic text “What Is Radiant,” Emily LaBarge takes a journey through the vibrations between the selected artists. William T. Carson writes a biography of Holt’s Electrical System, an immersive fountain of light that makes the invisible electrical power systems of Lismore Castle visible. Lisa Le Feuvre, curator of the exhibition, outlines the importance of light and language to the legacy of Holt’s work.
Published on occasion of the 2021 exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland.
Authors
William T. Carson, Emily LaBarge, Lisa Le Feuvre
Editors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Paul McAree
Specifications
Lismore Castle Arts, 2021
ISBN 97819196185
Hardback
82 pages
301 x 219 mm / 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches
Out of print
$30