Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things


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Being based in different countries around the globe, but keen to work together, Fluxus artists developed collaborations based on shared resources and creative autonomy – methods that also gave the artworks agency to perform beyond the control of their originators.




Many-Valued Aesthetics


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»Yes, No, Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the German artist's oeuvre - an aesthetic that Bauermeister developed using many-valued logic. Hauke Ohls brings the artist's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA. He shows that the development of Bauermeister's art may appear disparate, but her canvas and relief works, drawings and writing pictures, lens boxes and stone pictures are characterized by a reciprocal relationship of combinations and interconnections. Through the ubiquitous use of meta-references, the entire oeuvre ultimately appears as an interconnected assemblage.




The Humanities between Global Integration and Cultural Diversity


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Modernization and digital globalization have proven to mark major thresholds where paradigmatic shifts and realignments take place. This volume aims to capture the reconfiguration of humanistic study between the forces of global integration and cultural diversification from a full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The key issue is discussed in three major parts. The first chapter examines transnational interpolations of the humanities as potential indicator for a globalizing humanistic research. The second chapter deals with humanistic revisions of modernity with and against globality. The third chapter discusses the ambiguous constitution of cultural diversity as a complement and counter-movement to global integration, ideologically moving between social cohesion and exclusion. The final chapter outlines what the threshold-crossing from modern to global humanities will mean for the future of humanistic research. The multidisciplinary study of culture within the history of the humanities documents and reflects the mobility and migration of its concepts and methods, moving and translating between disciplines, research traditions, historical periods, academic institutions, and the public sphere.




Antike Lebenswelten


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Beinahe sechzig Wissenschaftler der (Alt-) Historie, Altorientalistik, Archaologie, Klassischen Philologie, der Sportwissenschaft, Rechtswissenschaft und der Soziologie aus elf Landern folgen in diesem Band den Spuren des renommierten Grazer Historikers Ingomar Weiler. Sie prasentieren wesentliche und lesenswerte Beitrage zu wichtigen Feldern historischer Analyse, aber auch zu gegenwartig aktuellen Fragestellungen aus dem Blick der Vergangenheit oder in systematischer Absicht. In ihnen kommen der Sport und seine Faszination in Antike und Gegenwart, Genderperspektive und Frauengeschichte, Demographie, soziale Gruppen und Alltagswelten, rechtliche Fragen und Aspekte der Politikgeschichte ins Blickfeld. Daruber hinaus wird uber Geschichte als Gegenstand reflektiert und ihre Wirkungsmacht von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart an mehreren Beispielen dargestellt.




Welten in der Schachtel


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The Cologne artist Mary Bauermeister made her mark on the New York art market in the middle of the 1960s. Her 'lens boxes' – wooden boxes, open at the front, containing several visual layers made of glass, with lenses and prisms arranged on top – fascinated curators and collectors. Every major New York museum purchased her work. For the first time, in this catalogue, Bauermeister's poetic, enigmatic and intriguing works are presented against the background of the experimental art of the 1960s, illustrating formal and content-related connections to contemporary groups like ZERO, Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Mary Bauermeister: Worlds in the Box, October 2010 - January 2011, at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany. English and German text.




Die Welt des Islams


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Investigating Subjectivity


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Investigating Subjectivity examines the importance of a phenomenological account of the subject for the nature and the status of phenomenology, for different themes from practical philosophy and in relation to issues from the philosophy of mind.





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German books in print


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A Compendious German Grammar


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