NEBULA MAGAZINE: Boston After Dark
Vol. 1. Number 2 December 1971
Dugan, Kieran. “Laffoley: Visions Rendered.” pp. 2 – 7
The visionary lives on the borderline between the life of the mystic and the life of the artist. He uses techniques such as Tantric Yoga from the Eastern tradition or alchemy from the Western tradition to train and perfect his inclination toward the mystical life while using his artistic talent to attempt to bring back to the world a sense of a symbolic evocative rendering of what he has experienced . . . PL
The visionary lives on the borderline between the life of the mystic and the life of the artist. He uses techniques such as Tantric Yoga from the Eastern tradition or alchemy from the Western tradition to train and perfect his inclination toward the mystical life while using his artistic talent to attempt to bring back to the world a sense of a symbolic evocative rendering of what he has experienced . . . PL
PAUL LAFFOLEY: The Phenomenology of Revelation, Kent Fine Art, 1989
Texts by Paul Laffoley, Introduction by Norman Dolph, Edited by Jean Marie Wasilik
Texts by Paul Laffoley, Introduction by Norman Dolph, Edited by Jean Marie Wasilik
This monograph was published on the occasion of the exhibition Paul Laffoley: Structured Singularities, September 5 to October 7, 1989
112 pages with 8 color plates . New York: Kent Fine Art. C 1989
ISBN: 978-1-87860—705-8
112 pages with 8 color plates . New York: Kent Fine Art. C 1989
ISBN: 978-1-87860—705-8
ARCHITECTONIC THOUGHT-FORMS: GEDEANKENEXPERIMENTE IN ZOMBIE
AESTHETICS: A Survey of the Visionary Art of Paul Laffoley spanning Four Decades, 1967-1999
To the Brink of the Bauharoque
Texts by Elizabeth Ferrer, Paul Laffoley, J.W. Mahoney, Jeanne Marie Wasilik
The title refers to my definition of authentic symbols and the means by which I render them into visual form. True symbols are not signs, indices, icons or archetypes. They are localized occasions of revelation, which are spatial architectonic in nature. PL
Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in., 93 pages, 27 color plates. Published by the Austin Museum of Art, 1999
ISBN: 0-9670952-1-2
AESTHETICS: A Survey of the Visionary Art of Paul Laffoley spanning Four Decades, 1967-1999
To the Brink of the Bauharoque
Texts by Elizabeth Ferrer, Paul Laffoley, J.W. Mahoney, Jeanne Marie Wasilik
The title refers to my definition of authentic symbols and the means by which I render them into visual form. True symbols are not signs, indices, icons or archetypes. They are localized occasions of revelation, which are spatial architectonic in nature. PL
Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in., 93 pages, 27 color plates. Published by the Austin Museum of Art, 1999
ISBN: 0-9670952-1-2
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UNDER/CURRENT Magazine. September, 2008
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“Beyond the Kitsch Barrier: An Exploration of the Bauharoque
Essay by William Alderwick, pp. 88 – 93, illus.
“Beyond the Kitsch Barrier: An Exploration of the Bauharoque
Essay by William Alderwick, pp. 88 – 93, illus.
PAUL LAFFOLEY: Secret Universe, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2011
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Texts by Claudia Dichter, Udo Kittelman, Raphael Rubinstein, Paul Laffoley
Published on the occasion of his first retrospective in Germany, and is dedicated to those artists who have gone unnoticed by established art discourses, paperback, 9 5/8 x 6 in., 136 pages, 45 color plates, German and English
Published by Nationalgalierie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-863350888
Texts by Claudia Dichter, Udo Kittelman, Raphael Rubinstein, Paul Laffoley
Published on the occasion of his first retrospective in Germany, and is dedicated to those artists who have gone unnoticed by established art discourses, paperback, 9 5/8 x 6 in., 136 pages, 45 color plates, German and English
Published by Nationalgalierie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-863350888
ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE Hayward Gallery, London 2013
Curated by Ralph Rugoff
The Alternative Guide to the Universe surveys work that creates unexpected possibilities in art, science and architecture: possibilites so profound that they suggest an alternate reality. The densely illustrated volume features self-taught architects and artists, photographers and futurists, outsider engineers and scientists—all investigating large systems of knowledge or developing particular disciplines in idiosyncratic directions.
London: Hayward Publishing, 2013, 192 pages. Laffoley pp. 155, 172, 45-53 illus (color)
ISBN: 978-1853323164
PAUL LAFFOLEY; Premonitions of the Bauharoque, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle 2013
Texts by Luis Croquer and Sylvia Wolk on the occasion of an exhibition April 6 through September 15, 2013. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2013, pp. 302, illus (color) 13
ISBN: 978-0-035559-52-4
Texts by Luis Croquer and Sylvia Wolk on the occasion of an exhibition April 6 through September 15, 2013. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2013, pp. 302, illus (color) 13
ISBN: 978-0-035559-52-4
THE ESSENTIAL PAUL LAFFOLEY: Works from the Boston Visionary Cell, 2016
Writings by Paul Laffoley, Linda Dalywimple Henderson, Steven Moskowitz, Ariel Saiber, Douglas Walla (ed)
Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph documents the evolution of his unique intellectual, spiritual and artistic strategies.
Living and working in a small office space in Boston he termed “The Boston Visionary Cell”, Laffoley became known for his large mandala-like paintings which were filled with symbols and copiously noted hand applied texts. Spanning multiple disciplines including architecture, philosophy, mathematics and engineering, Laffoley aimed to united the boundless freedom of the human imagination with the mathematical precision of the physical world.
Hardbound, 11 x 11 in. 320 pages, 118 color plates, 15 halftomes
Published by the University of Chicago Press, 2016
ISBN: 978-022 6315416
Available on AMAZON
Writings by Paul Laffoley, Linda Dalywimple Henderson, Steven Moskowitz, Ariel Saiber, Douglas Walla (ed)
Paul Laffoley, who once worked for Frederick Kiesler and Andy Warhol, emerged in recent years as one of the leading visionary artists of our time. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph documents the evolution of his unique intellectual, spiritual and artistic strategies.
Living and working in a small office space in Boston he termed “The Boston Visionary Cell”, Laffoley became known for his large mandala-like paintings which were filled with symbols and copiously noted hand applied texts. Spanning multiple disciplines including architecture, philosophy, mathematics and engineering, Laffoley aimed to united the boundless freedom of the human imagination with the mathematical precision of the physical world.
Hardbound, 11 x 11 in. 320 pages, 118 color plates, 15 halftomes
Published by the University of Chicago Press, 2016
ISBN: 978-022 6315416
Available on AMAZON
PAUL LAFFOLEY: The Visionary Point, 2018
