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Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art - Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys (Hardcover)
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Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art - Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys (Hardcover)
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Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys
were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich
possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of
these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about
separately, Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to
compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials
and to define similarities and differences between them. The
author's close readings of their works and examination of the
relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new
perspectives.The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for
Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice, especially the animism
of inanimate objects, is analyzed for the first time in conjunction
with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy.
Ernst's collage novel, La femme 100 tetes (1929), previously found
to have significant alchemical content, also is shown to
extensively utilize shamanism, thereby merging different branches
of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The
in-depth examination of Pollock's works, both known and overlooked
for shamanic content, identifies textual sources that heretofore
have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was
employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and
transformation. The author further argues that the German edition
of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957)
helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art, and that his ecological
campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism.
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