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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Zeichnung ALS Universelle Sprache. Werke Aus Südostasien Und Melanesien. / Drawing as Universal Language. Graphic Works of Southeast-Asia and Melanesi

Zeichnung ALS Universelle Sprache. Werke Aus Südostasien Und Melanesien. / Drawing as Universal Language. Graphic Works of Southeast-Asia and Melanesi

Byer, Doris
Reder, Christian

Hardcover

Series: Edition Transfer

Asian ArtGeneral ArtIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 3990434217
ISBN13: 9783990434215
Publisher: Ambra Verlag
Published: Oct 7 2011
Pages: 360
Weight: 4.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 9.40 Depth: 12.80
Language: English

The faithfully reproduced drawings from Melanesia and of South-east Asia were created in the 1930's during feeldstudies of the then renown Viennese ethnologist and ethnophotographer Hugo A. Bernatzik (1897-1953). The related writings convey a pluridisciplinary approach to the exceptional and multilayered quality of those folios. The ethnologist, Jacques Ivanoff, situates the drawings within the scope of a transcultural, long time dynamic of ethnicity; the anthropologist, Manfred Fa ler, focuses on the drawings as being an inherent medium of mankind; and the artist and philosopher, Elisabeth von Samsonow, analyses the relationship between the empty sheet as pure potentiality and the choreographic nature of the line. The various positions are by no means competing, but are alternatively stimulating. At once these reflections on the Drawing as Universal Language lead to the possibilities and limits of Mans' knowledge of Man.

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