Negotiating Rapture
by Richard Francis, Yve-Alain Bois, Homi K. Bhabha

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• Release date: August 15, 1996
• Format: paperback, 224 pages
• Publisher: Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• ISBN: 9780933856400 (0933856407)
• Language: english
• Author: Richard Francis, Yve-Alain Bois, Homi K. Bhabha

About The Book

Conceived as a series of journeys akin to those of saints or shamans,

Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon,

Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anselm

Kiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and

Bill Viola. These artists are exhibited together in order to reveal

their diverse expressions of a shared longing: the basic and enduring

human urge to transcend the ordinary and experience the

sublime.Juxtaposed with a range of works by Old Masters and examples

from architecture, literature, and anthropology, the works in

Negotiating Rapture show how artists, as creators, move beyond

common experience to a state approaching religious ecstasy and how we,

as viewers, can in turn discover a deeper involvement in our own

humanity.

Major essays by Homi K. Bhabha, Georges Didi-Huberman, David Morgan, and

Lee Siegel, as well as a series of focused contributions by Yve-Alain

Bois, Wendy Doniger, Kenneth Frampton, Martin E. Marty, John Hallmark

Neff, Annemarie Schimmel, and Helen Tworkov, consider how rapture

resonates both in a cultural context and within the experience of a

single human being. A «Travel Guide to Negotiating Rapture,»

written by curators Richard Francis and Sophia Shaw, explores how each

artist in the exhibition has sought to define rapture and, by guiding

the viewer/reader, initiates scrutiny of transformative experiences.

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