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Description for Tobi Kahn
Hardcover. Discusses the creation of sacred space in the 21st century, examining 28 works by Tobi Kahn including his commission for Congregation Emau-El B'ne Jeshrun in Milwaukee. Editor(s): Heller, Ena. Num Pages: 112 pages, 6 b/w, 50 col. BIC Classification: 3JM; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 240 x 18. Weight in Grams: 938.
The volume and accompanying exhibition discuss the creation of sacred space in the 21st century, examining 28 works by Tobi Kahn including his recent commission for Congregation Emau-El B'ne Jeshrun in Milwaukee. Each work is accompanied by a Meditation by novelist and poet Nessa Rapoport. From large canvasses with biomorphic forms to three-dimensional pieces such as the art nouveau-influenced thrones, Kahn's work has a presence that is immediately striking, and his reputation has grown steadily since his inclusion in the Guggenheim's New Horizons in American Art show in 1985. Much of Kahn's art, especially his landscapes, is ambiguously abstract, inviting ... Read more
The volume and accompanying exhibition discuss the creation of sacred space in the 21st century, examining 28 works by Tobi Kahn including his recent commission for Congregation Emau-El B'ne Jeshrun in Milwaukee. Each work is accompanied by a Meditation by novelist and poet Nessa Rapoport. From large canvasses with biomorphic forms to three-dimensional pieces such as the art nouveau-influenced thrones, Kahn's work has a presence that is immediately striking, and his reputation has grown steadily since his inclusion in the Guggenheim's New Horizons in American Art show in 1985. Much of Kahn's art, especially his landscapes, is ambiguously abstract, inviting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
D Giles Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904832645
SKU
V9781904832645
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About David Morgan
Ena G. Heller, executive director of MOBIA; David Morgan, professor of Religion at Duke University; Rabbi Daniel Sperber, professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Klaus Ottman, art critic and curator; Jeff Edwards, Dept. of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts, NYC; Nessa Rapoport author of Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi ... Read more
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