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Mack - Sahara : from ZERO to land art : Heinz Mack's Sahara Project, 1959-1997
Title
Mack - Sahara : from ZERO to land art : Heinz Mack's Sahara Project, 1959-1997 / Sophia Sotke.
ISBN
9783777439228
3777439223
Publication
Munich : Hirmer, [2022]
Manufacture
Munich : Eberl & Kœsel GmbH & Co. KG, Altrusried-Krugzell
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
155 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Summary
Heinz Mack's Sahara Project is legendary. In 1968 he installed for the first time light columns with a height of up to 11 metres which reflected and mirrored the glaring sunlight in the Tunisian desert. Nature and object fused to create an artwork of breathtaking beauty. This comprehensive volume records the history and ideas of this spectacular project over four decades. Sophia Sotke's in-depth presentation traces an arc from the conception of the project in 1958/59 via the sensational film Tele-Mack (1968) and the subsequent Expedition into Artificial Gardens of 1976 in Algeria and Greenland to the artistic experiments which Mack carried out in the Wahiba Desert in Oman in 1997. The question regarding the importance of the Sahara Project in Mack's oeuvre is examined together with his role in the development of Land Art. Hitherto unpublished photos of the expeditions into the desert and the Arctic regions provide new insights.
Variant and related titles
From ZERO to land art : Heinz Mack's Sahara Project, 1959-1997
Heinz Mack's Sahara Project, 1959-1997
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-151) and index of illustrations.
Contents
Foreword / Robert Fleck
On the prehistory of the Sahara project 1950-1958
The Sahara project 1959
Tele-mack 1968
Expedition into artificial gardens 1976
The Wahiba desert 1997
The elements in the Jardin Artificiel - aspects of (im-)materiality
A project for the twenty-first century.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Art.
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