Negotiating Rapture MCA

$15.98 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Negotiating Rapture brings together the work of Francis Bacon,Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Lucio Fontana, Shirazeh Houshiary, AnselmKiefer, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, andBill Viola. These artists are exhibited together in order to revealtheir diverse expressions of a shared longing: the basic and enduringhuman urge to transcend the ordinary and experience thesublime.Juxtaposed with a range of works by Old Masters and examplesfrom architecture, literature, and anthropology, the…