James Lee Byars
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About the work of James L...
James Lee Byars 1932-1997 Born in Detroit, USA. The work of the American artist James Lee Byars can impossibly be categorised into a specif
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Panamarenko, Jan Fabre, Vaast Colson, James Lee Byars, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Filliou, Jacques Lizène, Andrei Monastyrski, Hamlet Hovsepi
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An Architecture for Art -...
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Artist Books
"... They cannot be reduced. They’re not representable. The claim of the complexity of their design is irreducible. They never give the impre
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Audiodescriptie - De Coll...
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Chapter 1: Stone and Pape...
Stone and Paper 1958–1967 New York / Kyoto Byars’s earliest works were mostly large, minimal ink drawings and paintings on paper, ritually u
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Chapter 2: Plural Garment...
After returning from Kyoto in 1967 Byars designed plural or participatory garments, such as his Friendship Dress (1968) and A Banana for Five
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Chapter 3: Question, 1969...
In the early 1970s, Byars’s overriding interest was the idea of the question. As he wrote in a letter to Isi Fiszman: ‘If the critical questi
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Chapter 4: Communication ...
Byars wrote letters day and night, and they have become an important part of his artistic legacy. The first time they were exhibited was in t
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Chapter 5: Beuys and Goet...
At documenta 5 in 1972 Byars appeared on the roof of Museum Fridericianum, calling German names through a golden megaphone to the audience be
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Chapter 6: Perfect Death,...
Met eerst The Perfect Love Letter is to Write I Love You Backwards in the Air en The Perfect Kiss in 1974 in Brussel maakt ‘de vraag’ in het
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Chapter 7: Autobiography,...
In 1969, Byars wrote 1/2 an Autobiography while seated on a chair in Wide White Space Gallery. This was a collection of disparate sentences,
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Collectie Vlaamse Gemeens...
The M HKA holds works on permanent loan that were acquired with the budget of the Vlaamse Commissie voor Beeldende Kunst (Flemish Visual Art
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Fields of artistic produc...
The ephemeral, the circle and perfection are three perpetual reccuring 'elements' in the versatile oeuvre of James Lee Byars. These 'aspects'
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Het Transcendente [The Tr...
Cross-overs between various levels of reality – dream, vision, utopia – fascinated many artists during the 1960s and ’70s. Their work reveals
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JAMES LEE BYARS ENSEMBLE
The international renowned American artist James Lee Byars has a remarkable relationship with the M HKA. From the seventies onward he worked
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kunstenaarsboeken uit de ...
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M HKA_DEFAULT_PUBLICATIONS
Since the end of May 2002, the M HKA has strayed from the beaten track of museum catalogues. The M HKA does not consider a systematic thereof
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M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS
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NUCLEUS
The M HKA’s contemporary art collection has grown thanks to a combination of acquisitions, donations and long-term loans from various public