The moon : from inner worlds to outer space
2018
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"From painting to virtual reality, superstition to science, myths to missions, fantasies to space colonies, join Louisiana on a trip to the Moon - into space and into ourselves. This large-scale exhibition at Louisiana highlights the role, the importance and the fascinating power of the Moon. The exhibition presents more than 200 works and objects--and show how the round white disc is reflected in our art and cultural history. From Galileo's moon map to Norman Foster's plans for 3D-printed moon bases. The exhibition mixes art, film, music, literature, architecture, cultural history, design and natural science into a vibrant and diverse portrait of our closest neighbor in the sky. We encounter the Moon as a fundamental symbol and as a goal of romantic and artistic longings, scientific inquiry, existential issues--and the urge for political expansion. With this exhibition, Louisiana commemorates the imminent 50th anniversary of man's first steps on the Moon and also calls attention to a strong and renewed interest in the Moon both in art and as a springboard for a new Space Race with all its strategic and economic implications"--Museum website.
Main title:
The moon : from inner worlds to outer space / edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Marie Laurberg ; translations, Glen Garner, James Manley, Jane Rowley.
Author:
Laurberg, Marie, editor, organizerRydal Jørgensen, Lærke, editorGarner, Glen (Translator), translatorLouisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark), organizer, issuing body, host institutionHenie-Onstad kunstsenter, organizer, host institution
Imprint:
Humlebæk : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
Collation:
127 p. : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, September 13, 2018-January 20, 2019 and at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway, February 14-May 19, 2019.Three contributions translated from the Danish.Title from cover.Includes bibliographical references, list of works.
Contents:
Foreword / by Poul Erik Tøjner -- The moon : from inner worlds to outer space / by Marie Laurberg -- Lunar influence / by E.C. Krupp -- Moon poems / by Jorge Luis Borges, Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Li Po, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, D.H. Lawrence and Fernando Pessoa -- The distance of the moon / by Italo Calvino -- Astronautic theater : space flights and lunar expeditions in 1960s art / by Stephen Petersen -- The scientific moon / by Anja C. Andersen -- List of works.
ISBN:
97887936590878793659083
Dewey class:
700.411
Language:
EnglishDanish
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BRN:
1108176
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