Description
Book SynopsisNature, a topic central to art history, is concurrently a dominant concept in contemporary art, art theory and its related disciplines such as cultural theory, philosophy, aesthetic theory and environmental studies. The project Naturally Hypernatural questions lines of tradition and predetermined categories that coexist with the topic of nature. Currently, nature in art surpasses the simple depiction of art as a material or object. To clarify and analyze the interrelations between nature and art is the aim of the project Naturally Hypernatural. Concepts of Nature – the first volume of this project – argues that contemporary art is predominantly concerned with concepts of nature regarding the depth of their implications in order to reveal and analyze their internal structure.
Table of ContentsTom Huhn: On Nature and Human Coldness – Sabine Flach: How much Life is in a Still-Life? Art’s Hypernatural Nature – Gerhard Scharbert: Natural-Supernatural-Hypernatural. Modernity’s Struggle against Naturalism – Hans Dickel: Hybridformen zeitgenössischer Kunst mit Natur: in Werken von Per Kirkeby, Andreas Eriksson, Carsten Höller und Pierre Huyghe – Suzanne Anker: Petri(e)’s Panoply – Anselm Wagner: Inside the Green Room. The Ideology of Nature in Contemporary Architecture – Nicolas de Oliveira/Nicola Oxley: In the Play of Shadow – Jeanne Silverthorne: The Invisible Worm – Gary Sherman: Significant Other – Thomas Feuerstein: Flesh for Fantasy – Lois Weinberger: Notizen über ein Feld – Margit Stadlober: Creative Nature in Renaissance Landscape – Maureen Jeram: Painting a Portrait: From the Natural to the Hypernatural.
