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Consciousness at the Millenium


Thames & Hudson, 1999
Paperback, 9.07" x 11.27"
194 pages, 357 illustrations, 300 in color
Book design: Appetite Engineers: Martin Venezky and Geoff Kaplan
$20.00

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Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium is an unprecedented exploration of the nature of consciousness and its embodiment in many forms of contemporary art, including installation, painting, sculpture, video, film, and computer media.

The catalog includes a comprehensive essay by Lawrence Rinder, former director of the CCAC Wattis Institute, and George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley; pieces by writers in the fields of art history, philosophy, cognitive science, theology, and linguistics; and a list of works in the exhibition.

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Lutz Bacher
Robert Barry
Samuel Beckett
Louise Bourgeois
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Martin Creed
Cristabel Davé
Stan Douglas
Douglas Gordon
Rodney Graham
David Hannah
Jörg Herold
Gary Hill
Robert Irwin
Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar

Agnes Martin
Yoko Ono
Kristin Oppenheim
Adrian Piper
Markus Raetz
Ad Reinhardt
Stuart Sherman
Imogen Stidworthy
Diana Thater
Rosie Lee Tompkins
Bill Viola
Gillian Wearing
Pascale Wiedemann
La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela

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