The artists untimely demise provides a wildly interesting culmination to an equally interesting life and work the particulars of which are thoughtfully teased out in bas jan ader death is elsewhere by alexander dumbadze while dumbadzes focus remains primarily on aders work and milieu he also examines why this relatively small body of work has swelled in influence and led to relative cult status for its creator. The artists untimely demise provides a wildly interesting culmination to an equally interesting life and work the particulars of which are thoughtfully teased out in bas jan ader death is elsewhere by alexander dumbadze while dumbadzes focus remains primarily on aders work and milieu he also examines why this relatively small body of work has swelled in influence and led to relative cult status for its creator. Although the dutch american artist bas jan ader enjoys cult status in select artist circles enhanced by the mystery of his disappearance at sea in 1975 at a youthful thirty three he remains little known in the mainstream art world and thus occupies the strange position of being simultaneously overexposed and unrecognized alexander dumbadzes new monograph the first and only book . Bas jan ader death is elsewhere on july 9 1975 dutch born artist bas jan ader set sail from chatham massachusetts on a thirteen foot sailboat he was bound for falmouth england on the second leg of a three part piece titled in search of the miraculous. Ucp books bas jan ader death is elsewhere at last there exists a well researched and authoritative account of the life and work of the artist bas jan ader who has for too long resided in the romanticized shadow cast by his disappearance at sea in 1975 alexander dumbadze fleshes out aders working practice particularly in los