Formats
Anthologies
105
Audio
310
Catalogues
411
Clothing
23
Editions
31
Ephemera
68
Literary
39
Monographs
179
Posters
298
Video
39
Zines
141

Shop > Monographs

#15053

Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous

Artist
Bas Jan Ader
Writer
Jan Verwoert
Price
$25.95
Date
2006
Publisher
Afterall Books
Format
Monographs
ISBN
9781846381287
Length
64 pp
Genre
Criticism
Description

In 1975 Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea while trying to sail from the East Coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. Ader’s considerable influence on later conceptual artists stems from the way in which he used the cool analytic and antisubjective aesthetics of conceptual art to explore experiences that would seem definitively subjective—the emotional intensity of tragedy and the romantic quest for the sublime. In Search of the Miraculous was conceived as a three-part project: a lonely nighttime walk from the hills of Los Angeles down to the sea, documented in photographs; the Atlantic crossing; a night walk through Amsterdam, mirroring the LA photographs.The circumstances of his disappearance have led many interpreters to identify Ader (as a person) with the role of the tragic romantic hero. The cult status of the artist as a hero whose work is authenticated through his death, however, has obscured the fact that Ader’s art was a critical investigation of precisely those romantic motives his persona has now come to be identified with. This book unpicks these ties in Ader’s work in order to highlight the specific and unique way in which Ader explores the existential and emotional with an artistic approach that is as conceptual and analytic as it is poetic and personal.

  1. Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous
 

Related Items

  1. Bas Jan Ader: Discovery File 143/76
  2. Jan Wade: Soul Power
  3. Suzanne Hudson and Agnes Martin: Agnes Martin: Night Sea
  4. Dan Adler and Hanne Darboven: Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983 (softcover)
  5. Dara Birnbaum and T.J. Demos: Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
  6. Craig Burnett and Philip Guston: Philip Guston: The Studio
  7. Sonja Ivekovic and Ruth Noack: Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle
  8. Walker Evans and Oliver Richon: Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner
  9. Elizabeth Legge and Michael Snow: Michael Snow: Wavelength
  10. Beverly Buchanan and Amelia Groom: Beverly Buchanan: Marsh Ruins
  11. Kodwo Eshun and Dan Graham: Dan Graham: Rock My Religion
  12. Sarah Lucas and Amna Malik: Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
  13. Sharon Lockhart and Howard Singerman: Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat
  14. Mark Leckey and Mitch Speed: Mark Leckey: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
  15. Rodney Graham and  Shepherd Steiner: Rodney Graham: Phonokinetoscope
  16. Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Tom Holert: Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife
  17. Michael Archer and Jeff Koons: Jeff Koons: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank
  18. Patricia Lee and Sturtevant: Sturtevant: Warhol Marilyn
  19. Pierre Huyghe and Mark Lewis: Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask)
  20. Peter Fischli, Jeremy Millar, and David Weiss: Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go
  21. Hollis Frampton and Rachel Moore: Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia)
  22. Stefan Gronert and Sigmar Polke: Sigmar Polke: Girlfriends
  23. Helen Chadwick and Marina Warner: Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court
  24. Anna Dezeuze and Thomas Hirschhorn: Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument
  25. Ruth Buchanan: Where does my body belong?
  26. Althea Thauberger: The State of the Situation
  27. Cathy Park Hong: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  28. Martha Rosler: Culture Class
  29. AA Bronson’s House of Shame
  30. Making Art Global, Part 1

The Third Havana Biennial 1989
  31. Stephen Wetzel: [PAUSE]
  32. REARVIEWS VOLUME IV
  33. To Spoil the Party, To Set Our Joy Ablaze
  34. Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
  35. Mieke Bal: Exhibition-ism: Temporal Togetherness
  36. John Akomfrah and Johanne Løgstrup: Co-existence of Times – A Conversation with John Akomfrah
  37. Henriette Gunkel and Ayesha Hameed: Visual Cultures as Time Travel
  38. Susan Schuppli: Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
  39. Samuel Roy-Bois: Not a new world, just an old trick
  40. Boris Groys: Logic of the Collection