Daniel A. Siedell Thomas McEvilley Christian Williams
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Enrique Martinez Celaya s aesthetic project revives and reinterprets the classic Western metaphysical tradition relating aesthetics to ethics, the Beautiful to the Good and the True. His work embodies his belief that being a certain kind of artist means being a certain kind of person and that in and through art he gains clarity about himself and his relationship to the world. His project is thus profoundly ethical and, in important ways, spiritual. Through art Martinez Celaya reconciles himself to the...
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Enrique Martinez Celaya s aesthetic project revives and reinterpre...
In 1975 Marina Abramovic and Uwe Laysiepen met in Amsterdam, fell in love, and began to collaborate as performance artists. By the time their personal relationship ended twelve years later they had become two of the most famous performance artists in the world. Thomas McEvilley met them in 1983; they became close friends, and ever since he has been able to follow the development of their career together, and their careers apart, over the past twenty-seven years. Art, Love Friendship is divided into three sections. The first documents Marina Abramovic and Ulay together, including their...
In 1975 Marina Abramovic and Uwe Laysiepen met in Amsterdam, fell in love, and began to collaborate as performance artists. By the time their personal...
Bert Long: The Artist's Journey encapsulates the life and art of Bert L. Long Jr. (1940-2013). Thomas McEvilley opens the book by describing his chance encounter with Long on a Houston street in 1980. An African American artist who grew up in Houston's Fifth Ward, Long was an energetic and enthusiastic artist who was trained as an executive chef and came to his art through his growing ability to carve ice and make decorative food in the hospitality industry.
Long's work gained a wider audience as his reputation grew in the burgeoning Houston art scene of the 1980s and 1990s...
Bert Long: The Artist's Journey encapsulates the life and art of Bert L. Long Jr. (1940-2013). Thomas McEvilley opens the book by describing...