Nancy Holt: Sound as Sculpture
Sound as Sculpture is the first in-depth study of Nancy Holt’s work with sound. Fully illustrated, it includes the only published reproductions of the key scores for Holt’s sound works.
Nancy Holt (1938-2014) recalibrated the limits of art, expanding places where art could be found, embracing the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place. Holt’s rich artistic output spanned concrete poetry, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, artists’ books, public sculpture commissions, and audioworks.
This publication investigates Holt’s interest in audio. Thomas Feulmer’s essay for the first time addresses her sculptural interest in sound, and he sets out the ground for future study showing Holt’s desire to communicate “the wonder of place through verbal description.” Holt was attentive to language as a system structuring perception and understandings of place. In 1966 she started to work as an artist, first producing concrete poems testing the material properties of words on the page. The next year she extended her exploration of language from paper out to the landscape in Stone Ruin Tour I - an artwork that starts with the voice. For the next decade voice would be of paramount concern in her audio, film, and video works.
Published on the occasion of the 2022 exhibition Sound as Sculpture at The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
Authors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Thomas Feulmer, Nancy Holt
Editor
Thomas Feulmer
Specifications
The Warehouse, 2022
Paperback
108 pages
216 x 279mm / 8.5 x 11 inches
English
$20
Sound as Sculpture is the first in-depth study of Nancy Holt’s work with sound. Fully illustrated, it includes the only published reproductions of the key scores for Holt’s sound works.
Nancy Holt (1938-2014) recalibrated the limits of art, expanding places where art could be found, embracing the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place. Holt’s rich artistic output spanned concrete poetry, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, artists’ books, public sculpture commissions, and audioworks.
This publication investigates Holt’s interest in audio. Thomas Feulmer’s essay for the first time addresses her sculptural interest in sound, and he sets out the ground for future study showing Holt’s desire to communicate “the wonder of place through verbal description.” Holt was attentive to language as a system structuring perception and understandings of place. In 1966 she started to work as an artist, first producing concrete poems testing the material properties of words on the page. The next year she extended her exploration of language from paper out to the landscape in Stone Ruin Tour I - an artwork that starts with the voice. For the next decade voice would be of paramount concern in her audio, film, and video works.
Published on the occasion of the 2022 exhibition Sound as Sculpture at The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
Authors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Thomas Feulmer, Nancy Holt
Editor
Thomas Feulmer
Specifications
The Warehouse, 2022
Paperback
108 pages
216 x 279mm / 8.5 x 11 inches
English
$20
Sound as Sculpture is the first in-depth study of Nancy Holt’s work with sound. Fully illustrated, it includes the only published reproductions of the key scores for Holt’s sound works.
Nancy Holt (1938-2014) recalibrated the limits of art, expanding places where art could be found, embracing the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place. Holt’s rich artistic output spanned concrete poetry, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, artists’ books, public sculpture commissions, and audioworks.
This publication investigates Holt’s interest in audio. Thomas Feulmer’s essay for the first time addresses her sculptural interest in sound, and he sets out the ground for future study showing Holt’s desire to communicate “the wonder of place through verbal description.” Holt was attentive to language as a system structuring perception and understandings of place. In 1966 she started to work as an artist, first producing concrete poems testing the material properties of words on the page. The next year she extended her exploration of language from paper out to the landscape in Stone Ruin Tour I - an artwork that starts with the voice. For the next decade voice would be of paramount concern in her audio, film, and video works.
Published on the occasion of the 2022 exhibition Sound as Sculpture at The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
Authors
Lisa Le Feuvre, Thomas Feulmer, Nancy Holt
Editor
Thomas Feulmer
Specifications
The Warehouse, 2022
Paperback
108 pages
216 x 279mm / 8.5 x 11 inches
English
$20