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Refiguring the Spiritual - Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy (Hardcover) Loot Price: R864
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Refiguring the Spiritual - Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy (Hardcover): Mark C Taylor

Refiguring the Spiritual - Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy (Hardcover)

Mark C Taylor

Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 9

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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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Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 9
Release date: March 2012
First published: March 2012
Authors: Mark C Taylor (Chair and Professor)
Dimensions: 178 x 229 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15766-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Philosophy > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
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LSN: 0-231-15766-5
Barcode: 9780231157667

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