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Richard Demarco co-founded the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in
1963 and ran the vibrant Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh for
almost 30 years. He promotes crosscultural dialogues and was the
first person to introduce Joseph Beuys in the UK. Joseph Beuys was
a German sculptor and creator of action performances, political
activist and teacher. This book explores the works, lectures and
'Actions' which resulted from the mutual hopes, inspirations and
shared values of Richard Demarco and Joseph Beuys, the innovative
and inspirational German postwar artist, from 1970 until Beuys'
death in 1986. Demarco, an avant-garde gallerist in Edinburgh, was
an early proponent of Scotland taking its place within the European
art world; Demarco recognised the visionary quality of Beuys' work
and visited him in Oberkassel in January 1970. In the hope of
focusing Beuys' attention on Scotland, he presented him with a set
of postcards depicting typical Scottish scenes. Beuys responded
with, 'I see the land of Macbeth, so when shall we two meet again,
in thunder, lightning or in rain?' They reunited in thundery
Edinburgh later that year and Demarco led him northwards along the
ancient track he calls 'The Road to Meikle Seggie'. This initial
experience of the Scottish landscape inspired Beuys, who felt a
strong connection with Celtic culture, and laid the foundation for
a remarkable artistic friendship which enriched the work of both
men. With photos from Demarco's personal collection and essays
spanning from 1970 to the present, this is an intimate and
intellectually rigorous look at a friendship seminal to the
development of art in Scotland over the last 40 years.
Few artists of this century have exercised so wide an influence as
Paul Klee (1879-1940). He was one the most inventive and prolific
of the modern masters, working in a dozen different styles, each of
which he made uniquely his own, so that a work from his brush is
unmistakable in any style/ The forty-eight full-page colour plates
in this book illustrate the unparalleled way in which he combined
unrivalled imaginative gifts with supreme technical and formal
proficiency, from the playfulness of such early pictures as Red and
White Domes to the more threatening, bitter satire of the later
work. Accompanying the plates are extensive notes and an
authoritative introduction, which discusses Klee's life and the
development of this thought and achievement. Douglas Hall's essay
on the artist has been revised and expanded for this edition, to
make it an invaluable introduction to an extraordinary painter.
Thomas Thistlewood came to Jamaica from Lincolnshire, England in
1750, and lived as an estate overseer and small landowner in
western Jamaica until his death in 1786. Throughout his life he
kept a record of his daily activities and his observations of life
around him. His diaries contain a rich chronicle of plantation life
- its people, social life, agricultural techniques, medicinal
remedies and relations between slaves and their owners.
This work provides a careful historical analysis of the methods and
contents of the 'De Trinitate' of Boethius and the 'Expositio' of
Aquinas. It is also the first comprehensive philosophical and
theological analysis of Aquinas' 'Expositio' to be based on the
modern critical edition of the Latin text and in the light of mid-
and late-20th-century advances in thomistic scholarship. In this
study the author locates the reconstruction of Boethius undertaken
by Aquinas, and radically documents the dialectical themes of
'agnosia' and 'remotion' in this work. Such documentation aims to
provide a higher level of understanding of the structure of the 'cu
Expositio' than is possible with mid-20th-century approaches which
have emphasized participationist, analogical and transcendental
thematics.
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