The Bird of Self-Knowledge: Folk Art and Current Artists' Positions

by Weiermair, Peter

• ISBN13: 9783908161646
• ISBN10: 3908161649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Twenty-five contemporary artists invade a space normally devoted to the display of Austrian folk art and contribute inventive and interventive works in response to it. The painting The Bird of Self-Knowledge is the central motif for an exhibition of the same name. Twenty-five contemporary artists were invited to create a work in response to the place where it would be installed in a folk art museum. The result is a provocative dialogue between the current artists' positions and the anonymous cultural heritage already in place. The new works investigate traditional concepts of folk and contemporary art while developing new approaches to anonymous popular culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(3)
Peter Weiermair
Plates	9	(104)
Folk Art and Modernism	113	(4)
Wolfgang Bruckner
Perspectives on the Past: Artists and Objects	117	(6)
Jean-Hubert Martin
The Cultural Politics of Preservation	123	(6)
Saul Ostrow
Folk and Art = Folk Art? Remarks on the Fringe Areas	129	(2)
Marie-Louise von Plessen
On Self-Knowledge: Art as the Heiress of Alchemy	131	(8)
Beat Wyss
Artists' Biographies	139	(10)
Authors' Biographies	149