CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/21/2018

'James Turrell: Extraordinary Ideas—Realized' is a WSJ Best Holiday Gift Book

"The light and space installations of James Turrell are intangible and elusive," Lance Esplund writes in the Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Book Guide, "their experience akin to being immersed in a Rothko painting. Mr. Turrell, who is interested in what he calls 'the thingness, the physicality, of light itself,' shapes natural and artificial light into abstract volumetric illusions. He cuts apertures into ceilings, geometric frames of sky through which you can gaze at passing clouds and stars. His work generally does not translate well into photography—that is, until now… The real beauty of this book, with its stunning photographs and rainbow-color-tinted pages, is that you get to take a piece of Mr. Turrell’s magic home with you."