TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Mark C.
TI  - Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy 
T2  - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
SN  - 9780231157667
AV  - BH39 .T397 2012
U1  - 701 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Art -- Philosophy
KW  - Art and religion
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Beuys, Joseph
KW  - RELIGION / Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Financialization Of Art --; 2. Fat Living Art --; 3. Ɵ Creative Morphogenesis --; 4. Creation Of The World --; 5. Cure Of Ground --; 6. After Thought --; Notes --; Credits and Permissions --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that contemporary art has lost its way. With the art market now mirroring the art of finance, many artists create works solely for the purpose of luring investors and inspiring trade among hedge funds and private equity firms. When art is commodified, corporatized, and financialized, it loses its critical edge and is transformed into a financial instrument calculated to maximize profitable returns.Joseph Beuys, Matthew Barney, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy are artists who differ in style, yet they all defy the trends that have diminished art's potential in recent decades. They understand that art is a transformative practice drawing inspiration directly and indirectly from ancient and modern, Eastern and Western forms of spirituality. For Beuys, anthroposophy, alchemy, and shamanism drive his multimedia presentations; for Barney and Goldsworthy, Celtic mythology informs their art; and for Turrell, Quakerism and Hopi myth and ritual shape his vision.Eluding traditional genres and classifications, these artists combine spiritually inspired styles and techniques with material reality, creating works that resist merging space into cyberspace in a way that overwhelms local contexts with global networks. Their art reminds us of life's irreducible materiality and humanity's inescapability of place. For them, art is more than just an object or process-it is a vehicle transforming human awareness through actions echoing religious ritual. By lingering over the extraordinary work of Beuys, Barney, Turrell, and Goldsworthy, Taylor not only creates a novel and personal encounter with their art but also opens a new understanding of overlooked spiritual dimensions in our era
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/tayl15766
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231527774
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231527774/original
ER  -