Bird Of Self-Knowledge: Folk Art And Current Artists Positions; Editor: Weiermair, Peter; Author: (Art/Photo Books) Wyss, Beat; Hardback; Book

Editor: Weiermair, Peter; Author: (Art/Photo Books) Wyss, Beat
Hardback; Book; 103 Colour and 3 B&w Illustrations
152 pages
Published: March 1999
Edition Stemmle
ISBN: 3908161649
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Twenty-five contemporary artists invade a space normally devoted to the display of Austrian folk art and contribute inventive and interventive works in response to it.The painting The Bird of Self-Knowledge is the central motif for an exhibition of the same name. Twenty-five contemporary artists were invited to create a work in response to the place where it would be installed in a folk art museum. The result is a provocative dialogue between the current artists' positions and the anonymous cultural heritage already in place. The new works investigate traditional concepts of folkand contemporary art while developing new approaches to anonymous popular culture.Published in conjunction with the June 1998 exhibition presented at the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum Innsbruck, and the October 1998 Symposium at the ORF Landesstudio Tirol. The 242 color and b&w plates, together with essays by internationally renowned curators and art historians, focus on the theme of