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The Courage to Be Alone

The Courage to Be Alone
Library Shelf Location 03.HEGY
Publication Date 2004
Description The essays gathered in this book are the result of an historical-anthropological observation: after the crisis in narration, carefully analyzed in the past by François Lyotard, we confront ourselves today with the tendency, in contemporary artistic creation characterized by expression, of discourse re-invention efforts . In fact, artists, through their work, concentrate on the real experience of their own personal history--contextualizing it in historical, cultural, and social situations. All the examples presented in this book are the product of an anthropological outlook on man and raise the reader's awareness of the micro-community experiences that are nothing but the reflection of micro-utopias born from the absence of the great teleological utopias.
ISBN 8881585073
Quantity 1
Pages 96
Author Lorand Hegyi
Format Paperback
Publisher Charta
Related Artists Franz West, Gilbert & George, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Roman Opalka, Txomin Badiola, Ilya Kabakov, Sarkis, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Nahum Tevet
Category Surveys of Modern & Contemporary Art
Keyword Anthropology
Language English

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