James Turrell | Seeing the Light That Does Not Illuminate

This picture shows us that light clears clouds and lets us see clearly; the clearing helps humans dwell safely and securely

• True

• False

Another name for the project of modernity is_____________________

• enchantment

• disenchantment

• illusionment

• disillusionment

Turrell's light defies the purposes of enchantment. It makes a clear space in which we might see distinct objects.

• True

• False

James Turrell's light is an illusion

• True

• False

James Turrell's work suggests that light is ______________________

• containable

• uncontainable

• comprehensible

• unperceivable

James Turrell's artwork puts viewers in the stage of _______________________

• trusting

• confusing

• mistrusting

• wondering

"We live beyond a shadow of doubt;" we forget the invisible light by which we see; James Turrell's work allows you to question and feel ____________________ about what you are seeing

• settling

• unsettling

• unpleasant

• pleasant

When light is no longer the solid and stable existing object of which we are certain, but a mysterious presence with an unnamable appal that draws us into light without end, then light itself becomes_________________________

• exposition

• revelation

• disclosure

• discovery

When encountering the work of Turrell, one does not see the dogmatic or propositional contents of the Christian faith nor iconographic content drawn from a religious tradition; instead, viewer sees_______________________itself

• space

• color

• light

• object

What one intends to focus on are experiences of human being and the world, self and reality. Turrell's work puts viewers in a world like that described by ______________theology, and it makes ones resemble the human subject of such theology

• mystical

• transcendental

• liberal

• traditional