Carl Einstein (1885-1940) war einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller, Kunstkritiker und Theoretiker der Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er war auch ein Mann der Tat, kämpfte in Berlin auf Seiten von Spartakus und in der Kolonne Durruti in Spanien gegen Reaktion und Faschismus. …
"A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas, people, places, and parts of yourself. In Art inSight, Fanchon Silberstein delves into the first known art and explores what it can reveal about how its makers saw the world and how contemporary a…
Design has always prided itself on being relevant to the world it serves, but interest in design was once limited to a small community of design professionals. Today, books on "design thinking" are best sellers, and computer and Web-based tools have expanded the definition of wh…
The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated or ideological. In spite of this, Hilgers argues that one cannot reject it if one wishes to understand the nature of art. He claims that an artwork typically asks a person to adopt a disinterested attitude towar…
When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out----he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, f…