Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination (Non-mint)

Hardcover | 224 pp

Prestel | 2015 | 9783791354736

This book offers a mid-career retrospective of the important and innovative work of Diana Thater. For more than three decades, Thater has been creating groundbreaking installations that build upon the basic visual language of film and video by integrating architecture, applied colour, and artificial and natural light. Depicting a range of natural phenomena, her work is largely organised around an exploration of the subjectivity of animals.

This lavishly illustrated overview shows how Thater has radically re-envisioned both the ways in which film and video are deployed in site-related installations and the relationship between subject and object. Luminous images of eighteen projects such as China, Abyss of Light, Knots + Surfaces, and gorillagorillagorilla are accompanied by quotes and fictional writings that have long served as Thater’s touchstones.

Also included are an interview with the artist and essays on a wide range of topics that Thater addresses in her work - from the history and politics of the Chernobyl disaster to beauty and Baroque architecture. 

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.