{"product_id":"17213-josiah-mcelheny","title":"Josiah McElheny","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eUsing glass to explore a provocative range of artistic and intellectual concerns, Josiah McElheny (*1966 in Boston) produces dazzling fabricated objects that address such subjects as the nature of visual perception, the narratives of modernism, and the origin of the universe. Since 2007 he has produced a series of sculptures and a film inspired by \u003cI\u003eThe Light Club of Batavia\u003c\/I\u003e\u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e, \u003c\/I\u003ea\u003cSPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"\u003e \u003c\/SPAN\u003e1912 text by German Expressionist writer Paul Scheerbart. This publication focuses on McElheny’s \u003cI\u003eLight Club \u003c\/I\u003eworks, which investigate the role of glass in utopian ideas about modernist architecture, and features essays by curator Bill Horrigan and film scholar Thomas Gunning, shorter texts by visual artists Jeff Preiss and Jason Simon, a commentary by classicist Richard Fletcher\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e, \u003cSPAN style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003ea conversation among Horrigan, artist Doug Ashford, and curator Helen Molesworth, entries on McElheny’s art objects by art historians Lisa Florman and Kris Paulsen, and the script, by poet Rachel Zolf, for McElheny’s 2012 \u003cI\u003eLight Club\u003c\/I\u003e film.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, January 26–April 7, 2013\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874917773576,"sku":"9783775734523","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775734523_56984187-b864-4a9a-8680-5269f91cb839.jpg?v=1744104837","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17213-josiah-mcelheny","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}