Thought Through my Eyes.Thought Through My Eyes Klaus Ottmann Klaus Ottmann (born 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany) is an independent curator and writer based in New York. He received a M.A. in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. Spring Publications, Inc. 28 Front St., Suite 3, Putnam, CT 06260 0882145789 $22.00 springpub.com Critic, curator, and philosopher Klaus Ottmann presents Thought Through My Eyes: Writings On Art, 1977-2005, an anthology of numerous essays from over the course of decades about art as juxtaposed jux·ta·pose tr.v. jux·ta·posed, jux·ta·pos·ing, jux·ta·pos·es To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. with philosophy, literature, and science. Individual essays range from "Who Paints Abstractly?" to "Exotism", "I Am: A New Humanism new humanism an American antirealist, antinaturalist, and anti-Romantic literary and critical movement of circa 1915-1933, whose principal exponents were Babbitt, More, and Foerster, influenced by Matthew Arnold, and whose aims were to show the importance in American Art American art, the art of the North American colonies and of the United States. There are separate articles on American architecture, North American Native art, pre-Columbian art and architecture, Mexican art and architecture, Spanish colonial art and architecture, and Design", "The Strange Life of Andrei Roiter's Objects", and much more. A broad selection of galley reviews and interviews with Jeff Koons, Wolfgang Laib, Moira Dryer, Richard Serra, Jessica Stockholder, Mimmo Rotella, Alain Kirili, and Ida Applebroog round out this thoughtful, serious-minded and insightfully contemplative distillation. |
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