
Art and the Form of Life
Roy Brand(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2021
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-3-030-54771-4 (ISBN)
Description
Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme-philosophy as the art of living-and gives it a contemporary twist. The book examines a series of watershed moments in artistic practice alongside philosophers' most enduring questions about the way we live. Coupling Tino Sehgal with Wittgenstein, cave art with Foucault, Stanley Kubrick with Nietzsche, and the Bauhaus with Walter Benjamin, the book animates the idea that life is literally ours to make. It reflects on universal themes that connect the long histories of art and philosophy, and it does so using a contemporary approach. Drawing on great philosophical works, it argues that life practiced as an art form affords an experience of meaning, in the sense that it is engaging, creative, and participatory. It thus effects a fundamental renewal of experience.
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Edition
1st ed. 2021
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XIII, 136 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-54771-4 (9783030547714)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-54772-1
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Person
Roy Brand is a philosopher and curator working at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and art. He is a senior lecturer in the Master's programs of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He founded and directed Yaffo 23, a center for contemporary art, and he is editor and curator of numerous art exhibits, among them, The Urburb: Patterns of Contemporary Living (Israeli Pavilion of The Venice Biennial, 2014) and Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007). His book LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida was published in 2013.
Content
1. Working in the Medium of Life-Tino Sehgal and the Everyday as Readymade2. Snapshots from the Long History of Art3. Perspective and the Invention of the Self4. Out of the Spirit of Music-Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy5. Experiments in the Technique of Awakening-Walter Benjamin' Passagen-Werk6. Ghosts in the Machine: Duchamp, Warhol, and a Bit of Chaplin7. Art and Accidents8. Creating Contemporary Immanence9. The Technological Sublime