Research Catalog

Title

Capital : debt territory utopia / edited for the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, by Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols ; translation: Ann Marie Bohan, Tony Crawford, Fiona Elliott.

Publication

Dortmund : Verlag Kettler, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blume, Eugen.
• Nichols, Catherine.
• Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart--Berlin, host institution.

Description

244 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

The banking, financial and euro crises that shook the European and international markets in recent years have made it more necessary than ever to address the relationship between humans and capital. A special exhibition on this theme has been staged by the contemporary arts museum Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof -- Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin under the title "Capital. Debt -- Territory -- Utopia", for which we provide a comprehensive catalogue. Displaying works by some 40 contemporary international artists in addition to selected artworks and artefacts from antiquity to the present, the show explores people's ideas of value throughout the ages. Joseph Beuys' key work Das Kapital Raum 1970--1977, created in 1980 for the Venice Biennale, occupies a central place in the exhibition as it perfectly captures Beuys' redefinition of capital. For Beuys, it is not money but rather the creative potential of people that constitutes value: "art = capital". The book investigates the changing definition of capital in three chapters. The first chapter entitled "Debt" argues that debt (especially the inherited debt of original sin in a religious sense) predates money and is more elementary than the latter. The second chapter is headed "Territory" and explores the connections between capital and the discovery and conquest of global space beginning in the early modern period. The third and final chapter entitled "Utopia" questions Beuys' positive idea of capital that is based on creativity.

Subjects

• Art > Moral and ethical aspects > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Beuys, Joseph > Influence > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art and society > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art > Philosophy > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Human capital > Exhibitions
• Utopias > Art > Exhibitions

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Marx Collection at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, July 2 - November 6, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQG 17-1072

ISBN

• 9783862065769
• 3862065766

LCCN

9783862065769

OCLC

961101019

Title

Capital : debt territory utopia / edited for the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, by Eugen Blume and Catherine Nichols ; translation: Ann Marie Bohan, Tony Crawford, Fiona Elliott.

Imprint

Dortmund : Verlag Kettler, 2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Blume, Eugen.

Nichols, Catherine.

Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart--Berlin, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9783862065769

Research Call Number

JQG 17-1072