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Library of light : encounters with artists and designers
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Library of light : encounters with artists and designers

by Jo Joelson

Featuring colour illustrations, this book explores light as a creative medium through twenty-five interviews and four thematic essays. It examines its impact on cultural history and its role in contemporary art, design, performance, and architecture.

Accession 14680 ISBN 9781848222533 Publisher Lund Humphries
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Lights the way in which each practitioner extends the language of light and provides insights into the creative process. Structured around four thematic essays - Political Light, Mediating Light, Performance Light and Absent Light. -- blurb

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