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Felt : Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama / Chris Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Chris, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fluxus (Group of artists).
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935---Friends and associates.
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho.
- Beuys, Joseph--Friends and associates.
- Beuys, Joseph.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 319 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Felt provides a nonlinear look at the engagement of the postwar avant-garde with Eastern spirituality, a context in which the German artist Joseph Beuys appears as an uneasy shaman. Centered on a highly publicized yet famously inconclusive 1982 meeting between Beuys and the Dalai Lama, arranged by the Dutch artist Louwrien Wijers, Chris Thompson explores the interconnections among Beuys, the Fluxus movement, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual practice. Building from the resonance of felt, the fabric, in both Tibetan culture and in BeuysÆs art, Thompson takes as his point of departure Deleuze
- Contents:
- Intrigue : toward the scripting of intimate space
- Interhuman intermedia
- Rate of silence
- Entanglement. What happens when nothing happens
- Overgave.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4618-3
- 0-8166-7661-5
- OCLC:
- 711004427
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