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Having spent many years in the shadows of the artistic mainstream, Bas Jan Ader (born 1942, missing since 1975) was rediscovered in the 1990s by a young generation of artists, who’s work he has inspired. In the meantime, not only insiders from the art scene are to be found amongst his admirers. A host of solo and thematic exhibitions as well as publications have led to his now being at the heart of an artistic cult that is second to none. This volume thoroughly analyses, from an art historical perspective, the mystification of the artist, his contradictory oeuvre and its significance today, in order to question the romantic legend of the eccentric artist for whom art and life merge into an art of failure. Contemporary artistic viewpoints by Jonathan Monk, Elke Krystufek and Yang Haegue complement these observations – not without critical examination of the art world’s common tendency to merely recycle names, designs and styles
