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Summary:

"The publication Action as Sculpture / Handlung als Skulptur stages an encounter between two key figures in the recent history of art whose oeuvres revolutionized the role of the beholder. Although Lygia Clark and Franz Erhard Walther never met in person and despite their works being different in many ways, the participatory approaches they developed almost simultaneously reveal fundamental similarities. Lygia Clark (b. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1920; d. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988) has been hailed as a leading exponent of Brazilian 'Neoconcretismo.' Pursuing a vision of art as a participatory, sensual, and sometimes healing experience, she became one of the defining artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In the early 1960s, Franz Erhard Walther (b. Fulda, Germany, 1939), working in the orbit of minimalism, framed an open conception of the oeuvre that casts the beholders as actively involved protagonists. Walther's idea that the action is the true work influenced entire generations of artists. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the VILLA Franz Erhard Walther. It focuses on works from the 1960s and 1970s, the period during which both Clark and Walther changed the relationship between art and audience in their respective cultural contexts by redefining object, form, authorship, and aesthetic experience. With essays by Jessica Gogan, Daniela Labra, Luis Perez-Oramas, Irene Small, Gregory Williams, and a foreword by Susanne Walther"-- [Provided by publisher]

Contributors:

Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988 , artist

Walther, Franz Erhard , artist

Walther, Susanne , editor

Verse, Frank , editor

VILLA Franz Erhard Walther , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Languages:

German
English

Language Notes:

Parallel texts in German and English.

Alternate Titles:

Title translation: action as sculpture

Subjects:

Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988 — Exhibitions

Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988 — Themes, motives — Exhibitions

Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988 — Criticism and interpretation — Exhibitions

Walther, Franz Erhard — Exhibitions

Walther, Franz Erhard — Themes, motives — Exhibitions

Walther, Franz Erhard — Criticism and interpretation — Exhibitions

Conceptual art — Brazil — Exhibitions

Conceptual art — Germany — Exhibitions

Concrete art — Exhibitions

Art, Modern — 20th century — Exhibitions

Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988

Walther, Franz Erhard

1900-1999

Themes, motives

Conceptual art

Concrete art

Art, Modern

Criticism and interpretation

Germany

Brazil

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Title page on page 33.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the VILLA Franz Erhard Walther, Fulda, December 9, 2023 - September 22, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

283 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm

Physical Characteristics:

facsimile; illustration

Call Numbers:

NB359.C537 A4 2024

ISBNs:

9783954766796 (hardcover)
3954766795 (hardcover)

OCLC Numbers:

1458806720