Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art: Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys

Description: Title: Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art: Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys Author: Firestone, Evan R. Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Pages: 198 Dimensions: 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.70d Product Weight: 1.45 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781472477347 Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about separately, Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials and to define similarities and differences between them. The author's close readings of their works and examination of the relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new perspectives.The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice, especially the animism of inanimate objects, is analyzed for the first time in conjunction with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy. Ernst's collage novel, La femme 100 tetes (1929), previously found to have significant alchemical content, also is shown to extensively utilize shamanism, thereby merging different branches of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The in-depth examination of Pollock's works, both known and overlooked for shamanic content, identifies textual sources that heretofore have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and transformation. The author further argues that the German edition of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957) helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art, and that his ecological campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism.   Authorized Dealer Ships Fast From The USA! Stock Photo- Actual Book Cover May Vary

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Book Title: Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art: Kandinsky, Ernst,

Number of Pages: 198 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art : Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock, Beuys

Publisher: Routledge

Item Height: 1 in

Publication Year: 2016

Subject: Individual Artists / General, History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Mysticism, Shamanism, Subjects & Themes / Religious, Russian & Former Soviet Union

Item Weight: 22.4 Oz

Type: Textbook

Author: Evan R. Firestone

Subject Area: Art, Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit

Item Length: 10 in

Item Width: 6.8 in

Format: Hardcover