The author of numerous books and essays on art ranging from Michelangelo to Mark Rothko and Wolfgang Laib presents a postmodern reevaluation of genius. OTTMANN's thoughts in this study should be considered as fragments that form a horizon of conceptual events across the aesthetical and ethical discourses of five of Western philosophy's most influential thinkers: Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. The book suggests that while there is no essentialist quality of genius, the postmodern artist can reach the extraordinary by way of an active-passive "Genius Decision," which is engaged in an activity of failure in its desire to represent the nonrepresentable.
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"Ottmann convincingly argues, genius is simply not an innate essential quality. It involves action, risk and failure." --LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR (Jan. 23, 2005)
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KLAUS OTTMANN is a writer and independent curator based in New York. He is presently Chairperson of the Department of Cultural Studies and Søren Kierkegaard Professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He has written numerous essays on art, design, and philosophy, and is the author of THE ESSENTIAL MICHELANGELO; THE ESSENTIAL MARK ROTHKO; WOLFGANG LAIB: A RETROSPECTIVE; and JAMES LEE BYARS: LIFE, LOVE, AND DEATH. His most recent curatorial project has been STILL POINTS OF THE TURNING WORLD: SITE SANTA FE'S SIXTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL.
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HOW DOES ONE ACCOUNT for those extraordinary and exceptional works of art and literature that set one artist apart from the others; works that most artists, however skilled, would never be able to produce; that exert great influence on others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accidental genius, physical genius, structuralist activity, original contradiction, original sacrifice, ineffable truths, mirror stage, translation modified, qualitative leap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Genius Decision, Die Geburt, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Gilles Deleuze, University of Minnesota Press, Roland Barthes, Columbia University Press, Julia Kristeva, Jacob Taubes, James Conant, Martin Heidegger, Oxford University Press, Klaus Ottmann, Spinoza's Ethics, Vittorio Klostermann, Avital Ronell, Bertrand Russell, David Hockney, Friedrich Ulfers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Indiana University Press, Jacques Lacan New!
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HOW DOES ONE ACCOUNT for those extraordinary and exceptional works of art and literature that set one artist apart from the others; works that most artists, however skilled, would never be able to produce; that exert great influence on others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accidental genius, physical genius, structuralist activity, original contradiction, original sacrifice, ineffable truths, mirror stage, translation modified, qualitative leap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Genius Decision, Die Geburt, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Gilles Deleuze, University of Minnesota Press, Roland Barthes, Columbia University Press, Julia Kristeva, Jacob Taubes, James Conant, Martin Heidegger, Oxford University Press, Klaus Ottmann, Spinoza's Ethics, Vittorio Klostermann, Avital Ronell, Bertrand Russell, David Hockney, Friedrich Ulfers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Indiana University Press, Jacques Lacan New!
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- The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on page 112, page 119, and page 121
- Aesthetic Theory (Theory and History of Literature) by Theodor W. Adorno on page 67, page 93, and page 171
- Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics) by Soren Kierkegaard on page 69, and page 95
- Popper Selections by Sir Karl Raimund Popper on page 140, and Back Matter
- Mark Rothko by Marjorie Cohn in Front Matter, and page 69
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