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Joseph Beuys and the artistic education : theory and practice of an artistic art education
This book examines significant aspects of the art and theory of Joseph Beuys and the challenges they raise for contemporary artistic education. A model for artistic education is developed through foundational theories and a variety of examples from pedagogical practice.
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Refiguring the spiritual
Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private equity firms. When art is commodified, corporatized, and financialized, it loses its critical edge and is transformed into a financial instrument calculated to maximize profitable returns. Joseph Beuys, Matthew Barney, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy are artists who differ in style, yet they all defy the trends that have diminished art's potential in recent decades. They understand that art is a transformative practice drawing inspiration directly and indirectly from ancient and modern, Eastern and Western forms of spirituality. For Beuys, anthroposophy, alchemy, and shamanism drive his multimedia presentations; for Barney and Goldsworthy, Celtic mythology informs their art; and for Turrell, Quakerism and Hopi myth and ritual shape his vision. Eluding traditional genres and classifications, these artists combine spiritually inspired styles and techniques with material reality, creating works that resist merging space into cyberspace in a way that overwhelms local contexts with global networks. Their art reminds us of life's irreducible materiality and humanity's inescapability of place. For them, art is more than just an object or process—it is a vehicle transforming human awareness through actions echoing religious ritual. By lingering over the extraordinary work of Beuys, Barney, Turrell, and Goldsworthy, Taylor not only creates a novel and personal encounter with their art but also opens a new understanding of overlooked spiritual dimensions in our era.
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The Parameters of Postmodernism
This ground-breaking work draws upon the authors interviews with leading postmodern artists, including Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage and Glass. It offers a challenging and positive view of postmodern culture.
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Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys is one of the most legendary figures of twentieth century art; his work and ideas continue to impact on artists today. An enigmatic, self-styled ‘shaman’ who embraced radically democratic artistic and political ideas, he has attained almost mythical status. This reader brings together the crucial texts on Beuys to look at the most contentious reception ever accorded a postwar artist. Here in one volume, are key essays by prominent artists and critics from North America and Europe, in a collection which foregrounds the full scope of Beuys’ work across performance, drawing, painting, sculpture and multiples. With a foreword by Arthur C Danto, “Joseph Beuys: The Reader” features Benjamin Buchloh’s seminal essay ‘Beuys: The Twilight of the Idol’ and texts by Rosalind Krauss, Peter Burger, Vera Frenkel, Irit Rogoff, Thierry de Duve and others, as well as essays translated for the first time into English. Also included are two discussions, previously unpublished outside of Germany, with Beuys himself, as well as a useful chronology of key events and exhibitions in the life of this most charismatic figure. The most significant collection of texts on this artist to date, the book will be essential reading for any student of Beuys and for all those interested in postwar art, the cult of the artist, and art’s engagement with politics and society.
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July/August: Our picks of the summer
While Wenders' film-making is the focus, the show also takes in his collages, drawings, photographs and personal ephemera. 2 Fault Lines: Art, Imperialism, and the Atlantic World Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 12 July-25 January 2026. This exhibition brings together works from across Europe, Africa and the Americas in the Carnegie's collection, looking beyond the bounds of Europe and following the tendrils of Empire. Among the three works in contention for the top prize is Cliff, outreach worker (2024; pictured) by Tim Benson. 4 The Magical City: George Morrison's New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17 July-31 May 2026 George Morrison was 24 when he moved from Chippewa City - а now-empty Native American village in Minnesota - to study art in New York in 1943. The museum commemorates this significant donation in its first exhibition exploring how these artists shaped Viennese culture in the years preceding the Secession. 10 Werner Túbke: Metamorphoses Stádel Museum, Frankfurt 2 July-28 September 'Drawing is an elementary need, Tübke once remarked.
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