Heidegger among the Sculptors Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling

Name: Heidegger among the Sculptors Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling
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ISBN: 9780804770231

ISBN-10: 0804770239

ISBN-13: 9780804770231

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andrew J. Mitchell

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IIn the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject--a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillida--he formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 143
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: A Material Space of Radiance



Ernst Barlach: Materiality and Production



Bernhard Heiliger: The Erosion of Being



Excursus on the Goddess Athena



Eduardo Chillida: The Art of Dwelling


Conclusion: The Taste of Us


Notes


Bibliography