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What Does Light Look Like? Love, Silence and the Paradoxes of Being in the Paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi


Originally published in the Fall 2011 Quarterly issue of Artwrit.   Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) is one of few Danish painters to have gained considerable reputation throughout Europe during his lifetime. While acknowledgement within Denmark was scarce until the mid-twentieth century, critics and poets from around Europe—famously including Rilke, who intended to write an entire book […]



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Lux Vivens: Entoptic Phenomena, Preternatural Light and Phenomenological Unity as Experienced Through Dan Flavin’s Untitled Barrier Piece at DIA:Beacon


This originally appeared in the 2012 Spring Quarterly issue of Artwrit.   For decades, scholars have described minimalist art as an exploration in phenomenology that is essentially devoid of higher “spiritual” meaning. A major artist of the movement himself, Robert Morris, described the style as an exercise in establishing “relationships” between the viewer and the […]



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