Werner Schmidt – Die Farben des Ulysses bei James Joyce

by Bauerle-Willert, Dorothée; Hildebrandt, Toni; Zeller, Ursula; Williams, Keith; Tescari, Vega; Peters, Susanne; Arnold, Florian; Quené, Saskia; Ronte, Dieter; Bindervoet, Erik; Levina, Jurate; Deckard, Michael; Teuber, Dirk; Brüggemann, Heinz; Jägersberg,

• ISBN13: 9783969122426
• ISBN10: 3969122422
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-07-30
• Publisher: DCV

Summary

This extensive volume is an artistic testimony by the German painter Werner Schmidt (born 1953, lives in Oberkirch) of his life-changing fascination with Joyce’s 1920 masterwork. With expert contributions from 22 Joyce enthusiasts on the theme of color and more, this polyphonic homage belongs into the shelf of Ulysses studies as well as into the art library. The first part documents Schmidt’s analysis of Joyce’s “coloration of language” with chromatic diagrams and coded strips of color, which he paints directly on the walls when exhibiting the project. Following are the artist’s series of tonally inspired photographs from Dublin, the location of the novel, as well as his reflections on literary, linguistic, political and religious aspects of a book that has captivated him for over 40 years. The 5 chapters comprising the volume’s second part (the structure evokes the works of Thomas Aquinas und Joyce) feature essays by the numerous scholars Schmidt invited to participate in his project about the “modern book of books.” It is a novel, he says, that “in fact describes all of us, as universal humans, holding up the mirror and being aware of our limited abilities to think and act.”

Author Biography

Dorothée Bauerle-Willert (1951-2022) was President of the International Artists' Committee (IKG). She studied art history and literature and wrote her doctorate on Aby Warburg's picture atlas Mnemosyne. She chaired the IKG for many years. Toni Hildebrandt (Dr.), born 1984, received his doctorate from the University of Basel in 2014. Since 2014, he has been a research assistant at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Institute of Art History at the University of Bern. From 2013 to 2017 he was a resident fellow and postdoc at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. His dissertation "Entwurf und Entgrenzung. Contradispositives of Drawing" was awarded the Wolfgang Ratjen Prize 2018. Ursula Zeller is a German art historian and museum director. Ursula Zeller conceives and organises exhibitions and symposia on the topics of art and art education, art exchange and biennials, among others for the Goethe-Institut. She publishes articles on contemporary art and is the editor or co-editor of catalogues and anthologies. Originally from Northern California, Keith Williams spent most of his life in Texas. He is an art professor and a professional artist who has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Southern Methodist University in 2001 with an emphasis on drawing, painting and printmaking. From 2001 to 2003, he was a resident artist in sculpture at SMU. In 2006, he earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree with honors with an emphasis on drawing and painting. Graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature (artistic and literary track) in Milan and in Italian language, literature and culture at the Institute of Italian Studies at USI (Alma Bacciarini Prize). She gained her PhD at USI (summa cum laude). She held a post-doctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (KHI, Max-Planck-Institut). She has worked, inter alia, on the poetic production of Charles Olson, on Lalla Romano's photo-texts. Susanne Peter is a Senior Art Directorin / Projektmanagement Creation bei Scholz & Friends. Florian Arnold is a German philosopher and design theorist. Arnold teaches at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and is head of the editorial team at Philosophische Rundschau. Dr Saskia C. Quené is a research assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Tübingen. Dieter Ronte is a German art historian. He was a museum director in Vienna, Hanover and Bonn. He war born in 1962 and edited the combat journal Platforum, a literary-maritime-philosophical journal for explicit lyricism, faltering but high-profile polemic, poetry, translations, drawings and fields of knowledge. Jurate Levina is an Associate Professor and Researcher in literature and methodology of literary research, esp. phenomenology and hermeneutics of literature, and High Modernism Michael Deckard is a professor of philosophy and program coordinator for philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne University. He has taught courses in historical and environmental aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, hermeneutics and phenomenology, applied ethics (particularly medical ethics and the ethics of war and peace) and Native American philosophy. Dirk Teuber is an art historian. Heinz Brüggemann, born in Bevern/Weserbergland in 1943, studied history, literature, philosophy and sociology in Göttingen and Frankfurt am Main. After gaining his doctorate at the University of Bremen, he qualified as a professor of modern German literature in 1978. Brüggemann has been retired since 2008. Otto Jägersberg is a German writer and filmmaker who lives in Baden-Baden. Shane Walshe is a editor at the English Department. He studied English and German at the National University of Ireland, Galway and received his PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Bamberg, Germany. He has taught at the universities of Bamberg, Bern and