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Felt - Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama (Paperback)
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"Felt" provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar
avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the
German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centered on
a highly publicized yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between
Beuys and the Dalai Lama, arranged by the Dutch artist Louwrien
Wijers, Chris Thompson explores the interconnections among Beuys,
the Fluxus movement, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual
practice.
Building from the resonance of felt, the fabric, in both Tibetan
culture and in Beuys's art, Thompson takes as his point of
departure Deleuze and Guattari's discussion in "A Thousand
Plateaus" of felt as smooth space that is "in principle infinite,
open, and unlimited in every direction," its structure determined
by chance as opposed to the planned, woven nature of most fabrics.
Felt is thus seen as an alternative to the model of the network:
felt's anarchic form is not reducible to the regularity of the net,
grid, or mesh, and the more it is pulled, tweaked, torn, and
agitated, the greater its structural integrity.
"Felt" thus invents its methodology from the material that
represents its object of inquiry and from this advances a reading
of the avant-garde. At the same time, Thompson demonstrates that it
is sometimes the failures of thought, the disappointing meetings,
even the untimely deaths that open portals through which life flows
into art and allows new conjunctions of life, art, and thought.
Thompson explores both the well-known engagement of Fluxus artists
with Eastern spirituality and the more elusive nature of Beuys's
own late interest in Tibetan culture, arriving at a sense of how
such noncausal interactions--interhuman intrigue--create culture
and shape contemporary art history.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2011 |
First published: |
February 2011 |
Authors: |
Chris Thompson
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Dimensions: |
215 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
319 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-5355-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8166-5355-0 |
Barcode: |
9780816653553 |
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