GIMINEZ, Carmen; Trotman, Nat. James Turrell.

New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2013.

Hardcover. First edition. Large 4to.; 128 pages; lavishly illustrated throughout with color and duotone photographs; some full-page plates and gatefolds; text and images clean and bright; navy endpapers with line illustration; tightly bound in navy boards with embossed design of concentric ovals on front cover; stamped in silver gilt lettering on spine; some scuffing to front cover; corners sharp. No dust jacket, as issued. This full-color catalogue accompanies a major new project created especially for the Guggenheim, Aten Reign (2013), recasting the museum’s rotunda as a volume of shifting natural and artificial light. In addition to beautifully reproduced images featuring the artist’s early works, his magnum opus Roden Crater Project (1979– ), and documentation of Aten Reign, this volume includes essays by the show’s curators, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Carmen Giménez, and Associate Curator Nat Trotman, and Arthur Zajonc, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Amherst College.