Carsten Höller: Soma: Documents, Hatje Cantz, 2011.
In Soma, Belgian artist Carsten Höller (born 1961) traces the myth of the titular healing drink made by Vedic nomads in northern India during the second century BC. Drinking soma was thought to provide access to the divine. This publication collects writings on soma, from the early eighteenth century to the present, on which Höller drew for his most recent hallucinatory installation.
Title: Carsten Höller: Soma: Documents
Author: Höller, Carsten. Claude Lévi-Strauss; Udo Kittelmann, Dorothée Brill, eds
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Publication date: 2011
Format: softcover
Pages: 127
Images: Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome
Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB04366 73
In Soma, Belgian artist Carsten Höller (born 1961) traces the myth of the titular healing drink made by Vedic nomads in northern India during the second century BC. Drinking soma was thought to provide access to the divine. This publication collects writings on soma, from the early eighteenth century to the present, on which Höller drew for his most recent hallucinatory installation.
Title: Carsten Höller: Soma: Documents
Author: Höller, Carsten. Claude Lévi-Strauss; Udo Kittelmann, Dorothée Brill, eds
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Publication date: 2011
Format: softcover
Pages: 127
Images: Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome
Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB04366 73
In Soma, Belgian artist Carsten Höller (born 1961) traces the myth of the titular healing drink made by Vedic nomads in northern India during the second century BC. Drinking soma was thought to provide access to the divine. This publication collects writings on soma, from the early eighteenth century to the present, on which Höller drew for his most recent hallucinatory installation.
Title: Carsten Höller: Soma: Documents
Author: Höller, Carsten. Claude Lévi-Strauss; Udo Kittelmann, Dorothée Brill, eds
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Publication date: 2011
Format: softcover
Pages: 127
Images: Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome
Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB04366 73
