Research Catalog

Title

Dani Karavan / Pierre Restany ; [translated by Jan Marie Clarke and Caroline Beamish].

Author

Restany, Pierre.

Publication

Munich, Germany : Prestel-Verlag, 1992.

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Details

Description

158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

• The public commissioned monuments and environmental sculpture of Dani Karavan are rooted in the ancient culture and Mediterranean landscape of his Israeli homeland. Pervading his works is the theme of peace, the harmony of people with each other, as well as the harmony of civilization with nature. For his installations Karavan conceives an evocative fusion of sculpture, architecture, landscape, and city planning. Prior to selecting shapes and materials that resonate with their surroundings, Karavan conducts a patient, in-depth study of the site, taking account of its history and its natural and built forms. This book, the first monograph in English on the artist, brings together spectacular photographs of his most important murals, sculptures, and environmental installations with an interesting and poetic text by the eminent French art historian, Pierre Restany, who has closely followed Karavan's career.
• For "documenta 6" in Kassel, Germany, Karavan created the Environment Made of Natural Materials and Memories. Composed of white concrete, wood, trees, stone, and water, the Way of Light (1988) in Seoul's Olympic Park achieves a remarkable balance of urban and natural elements. His Negev Monument (1963-68), constructed of "concrete, desert acacias, and wind" in the barren and hilly desert near Beersheba, has become a sight of pilgrimage for the local people as well as for international art lovers. For the last twelve years he has been working on the design and implementation of a monumental, three-kilometer long project for the satellite town of Cergy-Pontoise outside of Paris.

Subject

• Karavan, Dani
• Artists > Israel > Biography

Note

• "First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "Dani Karavan, Projekte im urbanen Raum" at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne from June 3 to August 23, 1992"--T.p. verso.
• "A shorter version of Pierre Restany's text was first published in Hebrew in 1990 in Dani Karavan"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The House on Zerubavel Street -- The Pragmatics of Faith and the Origins of Geometry -- A Life in Osmosis with the Surrounding Space -- Decor as a Visual Strategy -- The Saga of the Signs -- The End and the Means: The Negev Monument -- Matter and Memory -- Florence and Prato: "Onorate l'arte ch'e la vita della vita" -- Stylistic Exercises -- The First Large-Scale Monographic Exhibitions -- Makom and Co. -- A New Function for Sculpture -- The Main Axis of Cergy-Pontoise -- Ma'alot: When 9 Becomes 6 -- From White Square to the Footpath on Mount Gilo -- Karavan and Public Art -- The Way of Light in the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seoul -- The Child of the Dunes Walks Barefoot on the Sand Once More -- Towards an Overtly Political Art.

ISBN

• 3791312375 (English ed.)
• 3791312111 (German ed.)

OCLC

ocm26990445

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries