Transparency Reflection Light Space: A Response

Transparency Reflection Light Space: A Response was created as a response to a 1971 exhibition catalog interview with the artist, Larry Bell. Prior to the publication of the catalog, Bell removed the vowels from his answers.

Leah Mackin read Bell’s obfuscated responses as inherently gendered in the context of the masculine art historical legacy of Minimalism. They are defiant, brusque and, when read aloud, Bell’s words are unpronounceable, guttural noises. Her response to the work presents the remaining vowels, as a sort of harmonic vocalization, since vowels give shape and rounded-out sound to the English language.

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New York Public Library, Vassar College, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, University of Delaware, Indiana University Bloomington, Bucknell University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ringling School of Art & Design, Bennington College, Library of Congress, Ohio State University, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Arkansas, Claremont Colleges, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY at Purchase

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Metadata

Title:

Transparency Reflection Light Space: A Response

Other Contributors:

Adreena Cook

Date of publication:

2017

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

contemporary art, 20th century, American--20th century--Exhibitions, Minimalism, Light and Space Movement

ISBN:

978-1-943039-03-6

Dimensions:

20.5 cm x 20.5 cm

Number in edition:

63

Paging:

56

Paper:

Neenah Classic crest and UV Ultra

Printing method:

Letterpress, photocopy and laser printed

Binding:

Saddle stitch pamphlet in hard covers

Structure:

Codex

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Windgate Charitable Foundation

Signature:

Signed by artist

Printer:

Leah Mackin

Binder:

Leah Mackin