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The White Mass
The works of influential cult artist James Lee Byars explore themes of death, transformation, and transience and are deceptively simple in form, yet pack an existential punch. Explored here is one of his last pieces "The White Mass,"
96 pages, Hardcover
First published June 15, 2005
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May 10, 2012
An account of an installation in a Cologne church: four marble stele, chiseled with representative initials, a ring, and a 2000-watt light bulb, "so bright nobody could look at it without pain." Byars considers himself the "golden footnote" of Beuys, and the essays and interview reflect on the art as a series of fidgety, spiritual questions.
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