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Exposition Jack Bilbo
This book combines two books in one. In the Richter book, a kind of picture collage of the artist's most diverse works and materials are assembled and joined, thus evoking the artistic universe of Daniel Richter. In the 'second' book, Richter pays tribute to the nearly forgotten artist, author, pub owner and gallerist Jack Bilbo. Authoritative texts by Ludwig Lugmeier and Cord Riechelmann, along with about 40 of Bilbo's works, commemorate a scintillating figure. With the union of art and life, Bilbo anticipated a central artistic attitude of modern art in the second half of the 20th century.00Exhibition: Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany (28.4.-18.5. 2017).
Toward an Aesthetics of Living Beings
The question of life has always been one of modernity's main preoccupations, but it was the advent of the camera--with its ability to record moving creatures--that initiated a new phase in the human investigation of animal behavior. In the world of contemporary art, animals now occupy center stage. Artworks such as Joseph Beuys's I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), a weeklong performance in New York during which the artist lived with a coyote, and Rosemarie Trockel and Carsten Höller's Haus für Schweine und Menschen at documenta X (1997), demonstrate the idea that culture, self-consciousness, and language do not exclusively belong to man. Drawing on key texts by Sergei Eisenstein, ...
Cuervos
Inteligentes, calculadores y amantes de los juegos, la cultura humana se desarrolla bajo la observación de los cuervos. El retrato de la más tenebrosa de las aves. Los cuervos viven por casi todo el planeta y siempre han buscado la compañía de los seres humanos. Seguían a los vikingos para después hastiarse con los restos de la batalla, y desde entonces se los asoció con la muerte. Los córvidos son magníficos observadores: establecen a su modo cálculos de probabilidades y conductas acerca de sus presas, y se van mudando a las ciudades escapando de la explotación industrializada del campo. En cuanto a la presencia del cuervo en el arte y la cultura, este libro va desde la cueva de Lascaux, pasando por uno de los últimos cuadros de van Gogh, o el poema de Edgar Allan Poe, hasta llegar a la película Los pájaros, de Alfred Hitchcock así como a las representaciones del cuervo en la cultura contemporánea.
Invasive Species
Zebra mussels, purple loosestrife, and killer bees; invasive species are infiltrating our water, land, and skies, disrupting our delicate ecosystems. This book examines ways these invaders harm, or help, the environment, and what to do about them.
Können Tiere lügen?
Cord Riechelmann sucht nach Potenzialen des Lügens im Tierreich und kommt zu dem Befund, dass es durchaus Täuschungsversuche bei verschiedenen Arten gibt, was er anhand von zahlreichen Anekdoten und Geschichten zeigt, dass aber die explizite Lüge wohl eine sehr menschliche Erscheinung ist. Denn die Sprache, und damit auch die Schrift, schafft es, der Lüge ein eigenes vom Körper unabhängiges Verhaltensterrain zu erschaffen, das Tieren nicht zur Verfügung steht.
Liebe, lebenslänglich
Warum freut sich ein Vater nicht, wenn der Sohn in seine Fußstapfen treten möchte? Weshalb kommt die Tochter bis heute nicht an ihre Mutter ran? Wie konnte der Sohn wegen Mordes im Gefängnis landen? Die hier versammelten Geschichten erzählen von den Erfahrungen von Müttern und Vätern: wie schön die Momente der Erfüllung sein können, wie bitter die der Enttäuschung. Denn Eltern lieben, ohne eine Wahl zu haben. Und das ist für die Söhne und Töchter nicht anders. Beide Seiten kommen zu Wort und bewerten ihr Verhältnis oft komplett unterschiedlich. So verschiedenartig all diese Beziehungen auch sind, in einer Hinsicht gleichen sie sich: sie sind unausweichlich. Dieses Buch setzt nicht auf Ratschläge, sondern auf Anschauung. Es erzählt, wie vierzehn Väter, Mütter, Söhne und Töchter miteinander klarkommen.
The Curious World of Seahorses
With the whimsy and heart of The Soul of an Octopus and the surprising details of the very best science writing, The Curious World of Seahorses brilliantly captures the ocean’s most charismatic and mysterious inhabitant. "When God created the seahorse," says one marine biologist, "he may have had one too many." Of all the creatures in the ocean, there are none more charming and magical—or more strange—than the seahorses. Masters of disguise, graceful dancers, and romantic lovers, seahorses are found not only in the seagrass meadows and mangroves of the world, but also throughout the annals of human history and culture—surfacing everywhere from chess and Greek mythology to Disney movi...
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State of the Arts
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions have responded to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural production positions itself in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and self-cultivation through the arts. Jonas Tinius' fieldwork with professional actors, directors, cultural policy makers, and activists unravels how they constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct and how they grapple with the pervasive German cultural tradition of Bildung, or self-cultivation through the arts. Tinius shows how anthropological methods provide a way to understand the entanglement of cultural policy, institution-building, and subject-formation. An ambitious and interdisciplinary study, the work demonstrates the crucial role of artistic intellectuals in society.
Minor Universality / Universalité Mineure
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and s...
