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Tomas Schmit : sachen machen = making things

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Tomas Schmit : sachen machen = making things / für das Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Jenny Graser in Zusammenarbeit mit Barbara Wien = for the Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Jenny Graser in collaboration with Barbara Wien.
Author
Schmit, Tomas
Publication
  • Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Graser, Jenny
  • Wien, Barbara, 1953-
  • Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Kupferstichkabinett, host institution.
Description
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 30 cm
Summary
When the European Fluxus group split in 1964 after two eventful years, Tomas Schmit, who had been involved in the group's actions as a performer, gradually ithdrew from performing. From 1966 he devoted himself primarily to writing and drawing. But the idea of the stage as a place where an action is performed in front of and with an audience did not vanish from his art. From then on, Schmit staged "the performance of drawing" on paper. In this catalogue, the close interlocking of performance and drawing in Schmit's entire oeuvre is examined for the first time. The publication further reflects on the manifold spectrum of his drawing and language art spanning almost 40 years. Tomas Schmit (1943-2006) came to art as an autodidact, learning from Fluxus artists such as Nam June Paik, George Maciunas, Arthur Köpcke, and Ludwig Gosewitz, with whom he began performing in 1962. His drawings provide complex, often humorous commentary and engage with subjects as diverse as language, logic, cybernetics, biology, behavioral science, and perception. Exhibition: Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany (15.09.2021 - 09.01.2022).
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
  • Works.
  • Making things
Subject
  • Schmit, Tomas > Exhibitions
  • Schmit, Tomas
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, September 15, 2021-January 9, 2022.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-255).
Language (note)
  • Parallel text in German and English.
Call Number
JQF 22-812
ISBN
  • 9783775751261
  • 3775751262
LCCN
9783775751261
OCLC
1295406424
Author
Schmit, Tomas, artist.
Title
Tomas Schmit : sachen machen = making things / für das Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Jenny Graser in Zusammenarbeit mit Barbara Wien = for the Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin edited by Jenny Graser in collaboration with Barbara Wien.
Publisher
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-255).
Language
Parallel text in German and English.
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Graser, Jenny, editor, author.
Wien, Barbara, 1953- editor.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Kupferstichkabinett, host institution.
Other Title
Making things
Other Standard Identifier
9783775751261
Research Call Number
JQF 22-812
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