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On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. The author resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

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Bas Jan Ader

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 27 May 2013
      ISBN-13 9780226038537
      978-0226038537
      ISBN-10 022603853X
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      Individual artists, art monographs The arts: general topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. The author resituates Ader's art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

      Trade Review
      "Alexander Dumbadze is a wonderfully engaging writer. He concentrates tremendous psychological energy in the telling of a taut and revealing story. This is one of the most compelling pieces of art writing that I have yet encountered." (Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago)"

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