Bibliography: Body as spirit IV: Tenuous body,
the sky
Gaston Bachelard 1943/1988 Air and dreams: an essay
on the imagination of movement Dallas Institute of Humanities &
Culture (translation of L'air et les songes) BF411.B2513
Bachelard is a philosopher of science who uses his vast
knowledge of poetry to investigate poetic uses of airy images. Chapter
3 on Robert Desoille's guided reverie work.
Marcel Minnaert The nature of light and colour in the
open air
Belgian naturalist describes and explains hundreds of
enthralling effects of natural light in daily surroundings.
Richard Misrach 2000 The sky book Arena
Contemporary photographer's collection of images of desert
skies.
Guy Murchie 1961/1967 Music of the spheres, Vol I The
macrocosm: planets, stars, galaxies, cosmology; and Vol II The microcosm:
matter, atoms, waves, radiation, relativity Dover.
Quite an old book but an excellent introduction to cosmology
(Vol I) and wave phenomena at all scales (Vol II). It is exact, well visualized
and easy to read. Probably can be found cheap through Amazon used books.
Peter Redgrove 1971 The black goddess and the unseen
real
A poet's research on felt energetic phenomena and the
subtle senses. Includes passages on subtle sensitivities to atmospheric
phenomena like pressure and other weather changes.
Tarthang Tulku 1977 Time, space, and knowledge: a new
vision of reality Dharma Publishing
Tantric Buddhist philosophy of embodiment written in language
exemplary for its cleanness and clarity. Includes exercises for visualizing
and experiencing the openness of sky.
Robert Eaton 1995 The lightning field Johnson
New Mexico travel book that contains a section about a
day and night spent in Quemado NM with artist Walter de Maria's Lightning
Field project.
Michael Hue Williams and Andrew Graham Dixon 2007 James
Turrell: A Life in Light Somogy
Very recent biography of the artist who is working on
the Roden Crater project.
Jan Butterfield and Jim McHugh 1996 The art of light
and space Abbeville Press
Light and Space art, a movement that began in Southern
California in the late 1960s, uses glass, cast acrylic, phosphorescent
materials, floor lights and so forth to evoke the ripple of sunshine on
water, the flicker of light through the trees, a splash of moonlight. In
this profusely illustrated, entrancing survey, art critic and artists'
consultant Butterfield investigates an art that takes shape through the
viewer's directed perception. Examples include Robert Irwin's mysterious,
luminous spun-aluminum discs, Maria Nordman's geometrically planted trees
that redefine public spaces, James Turrell's hovering three-dimensional
cube of light and Eric Orr's transmutation of alchemy, Egyptian ruins and
kabbalistic lore into "silent, awesome, magical" installations
and environmental sculpture. This album showcases a movement that deserves
to be better known. - review from Publisher's
Weekly
Lawrence Weschler 1982 Seeing is forgetting the name
of the thing one sees University of California
Biography of contemporary light and space artist Robert
Irwin.
Websites and programs
http://www.dur.ac.uk/john.lucey/users/solar_year_durham.html
Durham University Department of Physics The solar year.
Animated map of the position of midday sun as seen from Durham (in the
UK - 54.45 N latitude) through the year.
Google Earth
If you download this program the Sky application will
show you what is above your current location at the current time.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance
http://skymaps.com/downloads.html
http://domeofthesky.com/
http://www.skyviewcafe.com/
You can see which stars and planets will be out tonight
in the sky above your home town, see how the next solar or lunar eclipse
will look from Los Angeles, or find out when the moon rose over Sydney
on your birthday ten years ago. Sky View Café includes star charts,
a 3-D orrery, displays of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, an astronomical
event calendar, an ephemeris generator, and many other features.
http://www.lpod.org/ots/
Observing the Sky a blog that demonstrates what
there is to look for in detail.
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