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Many-Valued Aesthetics
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Hauke Ohls brings Mary Bauermeister's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA.
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07 January 2025

»Yes, No, Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the German artist's oeuvre – an aesthetic that Bauermeister developed using many-valued logic. Hauke Ohls brings the artist's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA. He shows that the development of Bauermeister's art may appear disparate, but her canvas and relief works, drawings and writing pictures, lens boxes and stone pictures are characterized by a reciprocal relationship of combinations and interconnections. Through the ubiquitous use of meta-references, the entire oeuvre ultimately appears as an interconnected assemblage.
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Pages: 306
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Image
Publication Date:
07 January 2025
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837673685
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ART / History / 20th & 21st Century, ART / History / General, ART / General
Hauke Ohls (PhD) is a research assistant at the Chair of Contemporary Art and Digital Image Cultures at the Institute of Art History, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Further, he conducted research and taught art history at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen, Trier and Aarhus. He worked as an assistant to the artist Mary Bauermeister for ten years and has been the scholary director of her catalogue raisonné project since 2017. His research focuses on theoretical, sociological, and philosophical questions of modern and contemporary art, especially ecological aesthetics, discourses on object, materiality and image as well as the relationship between art, economy, and neo-liberalism.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
1. Prologue 9
2. Aesthetics of Many-Valued Logic. Needless Needles with Gotthard Günther 21
3. Combination Principle 69
4. Material and Materiality. Dimensions of Combination and Many-Valuedness in Bauermeister's Aesthetic of Materials 121
5. The Use of Writing in Bauermeister's Oeuvre 157
6. Networking in and between Works 201
7. Epilogue. The Oeuvre as (Agential) Assemblage 261
Bibliography 271
List of Figures 299