The Necessity Of Art

Author : Ernst Fischer
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789600995

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"Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it."-Ernst Fischer Reissued with an introduction by John Berger, The Necessity of Art is a beautifully written meditation on art's importance in viewing the world in which we live. In this wide-ranging and erudite exploration of literary and fine art, Fischer looks at the relationship between the creative imagination and social reality, arguing that truthful art must both reflect existence in all its flaws and imperfections, and help show how change and improvement might be brought about. With his emphasis on the individual's need to engage with society, his rejection of rampant consumerism and hypertechnology, and his indomitable optimism, this radical, affirmative and humane vision of the artistic endeavor remains as timely today as when it was first published sixty years ago.

Author : Ernst Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106009050920

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Author : Laurie Cluitmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9493246000

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On the Necessity of Gardening by Laurie Cluitmans Pdf

On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers have each described, depicted and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garden was a reflection of paradise, a place of harmony and fertility, shielded from worldly problems. In the eighteenth century this image tilted: the garden became a symbol of worldly power and politics. The Anthropocene, the era in which man completely dominates nature with disastrous consequences, is forcing us to radically rethink the role we have given nature in recent decades. There is a renewed interest in the theme of the garden among contemporary makers. It is not a romantic desire that drives them, but rather a call for a new awareness of our relationship with the earth. Through many different essays and an extensive abecedarium, On the Necessity of Gardening reflects on the garden as a metaphor for society.00Exhibition: Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (11.09.2021 ? 09.01.2022).

Author : Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199715750

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The Necessity of Theater by Paul Woodruff Pdf

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth. The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched, practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched. Whereas performers practice the art of being watched - making their actions worth watching, and paying attention to action, choice, plot, character, mimesis, and the sacredness of performance space - audiences practice the art of watching: paying close attention. A good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators; their engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special kind of human wisdom. As Plato implied, theater cannot teach us transcendent truths, but it can teach us about ourselves. Characteristically thoughtful, probing, and original, Paul Woodruff makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression connected to our most human instincts. The Necessity of Theater should appeal to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater or performance more broadly.

Author : Eric Gibson
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781641771092

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The Necessity of Sculpture by Eric Gibson Pdf

The Necessity of Sculpture brings together a selection of articles on sculpture and sculptors from Eric Gibson’s nearly four-decade career as an art critic. It covers subjects as diverse as Mesopotamian cylinder seals, war memorials, and the art of the American West; stylistic periods such as the Hellenistic in Ancient Greece and Kamakura in medieval Japan; Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and other historical figures; modernists like Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, and Alberto Giacometti; and contemporary artists including Richard Serra, Rachel Whiteread, and Jeff Koons. Organized chronologically by artist and period, this collection is as much a synoptic history of sculpture as it is an art chronicle. At the same time, it is an illuminating introduction to the subject for anyone coming to it for the first time.

Author : Herbert Kohl,Tom Oppenheim
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781595587688

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The Muses Go to School by Herbert Kohl,Tom Oppenheim Pdf

What do Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rosie Perez, and Phylicia Rashad have in common? A transformative encounter with the arts during their school years. Whether attending a play for the first time, playing in the school orchestra, painting a mural under the direction of an art teacher, or writing a poem, these famous performers each credit an experience with the arts at school with helping them discover their inner humanity and putting them on the road to fully realized creative lives. In The Muses Go to School, autobiographical pieces with well-known artists and performers are paired with interpretive essays by distinguished educators to produce a powerful case for positioning the arts at the center of primary and secondary school curriculums. Spanning a range of genres from acting and music to literary and visual arts, these smart and entertaining voices make surprising connections between the arts and the development of intellect, imagination, spirit, emotional intelligence, self-esteem, and self-discipline of young people. With support from a star-studded cast, editors Herbert Kohl and Tom Oppenheim present a memorable critique of the growing national trend to eliminate the arts in public education. Going well beyond the traditional rationales, The Muses Go to School shows that creative arts, as a means of academic and personal development, are a critical element of any education. It is essential reading for teachers, parents, and anyone who really cares about education.

Author : Arthur Clutton Brock,Percy Dearmer,Arthur Duncan-Jones,J Middleton Murry,Alfred W. Pollard
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532670985

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The Necessity of Art by Arthur Clutton Brock,Percy Dearmer,Arthur Duncan-Jones,J Middleton Murry,Alfred W. Pollard Pdf

Author : Kay Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0500281505

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Beautiful Necessity by Kay Turner Pdf

Turner presents a collection of collages of statues, flowers, pictures, photographs, drawings, amulets, pieces of shell, and bits of earth in 100 illustrations, 80 of which are in color.

Author : Ernst Fischer (Sociologue marxiste.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:715675617

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The Necessity of Art by Ernst Fischer (Sociologue marxiste.) Pdf

Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781476784724

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The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer Pdf

"In The Art of Stillness, Iyer draws on the lives of well-known wanderer-monks like Cohen--as well as from his own experiences as a travel writer who chooses to spend most of his time in rural Japan--to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. Iyer reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people--even those with no religious commitment--seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age."--Publisher's description.

Author : Ernst Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:603149000

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Art Canada Institute
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1487102259

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Revision and Resistance by Anonim Pdf

Revision & Resistance reveals the story of Kent Monkman's monumental 2019 diptych commission mistik?siwak (Wooden Boat People) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book celebrates Monkman's historic achievement with essays and contributions by today's most prominent voices on Indigenous art and Canadian painting.

Author : Eugene D. Glynn
Publisher : Periscope
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015079208040

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Desperate Necessity by Eugene D. Glynn Pdf

The arts.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486132488

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295998381

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What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake Pdf

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biological necessity in human existence and fundamental characteristic of the human species. In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that “make special,” and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; “primitive” and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children’s art. The final chapter, “From Tradition to Aestheticism,” explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies--particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved--and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art. This book is addressed to readers who have a concerned interest in the arts or in human nature and the state of modern society.