James Turrell: A Retrospective

James Turrell: A Retrospective explores nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles), a key artist in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 70s. This comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work - from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape just outside Flagstaff, Arizona. Whether he's projecting shapes on a flat wall or into the corner of a gallery space, Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light"--evoking his Quaker upbringing. Enhanced by thoughtful essays and an illuminating interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell's career to date--from his early geometric light projections, prints, and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to re