Research Catalog

Title

So wohl als ob / Peter Radelfinger.

Author

Radelfinger, Peter, 1953-

Publication

[Zürich] : Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ; Zürich : Edition Patrick Frey, c2016.

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Description

680 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects. Radelfinger tries to lay down precise coordinates that will serve to broaden his students’ perceptions and understanding of art, routinely setting parameters that establish a “minimal order” within which they’ll have maximum room for maneuver. Radelfinger combines his idiosyncratic artistic approach with his pedagogical and didactic know-how. Not for nothing does he insist his teaching is part and parcel of his artistic practice. This book, in turn, sets about creating a “minimal order” for the next playful round of artistic consciousness expansion. Serving neither as documentation of Radelfinger’s courses nor as conventional teaching material designed to put across a specific method, this is an exciting handbook that provides plenty of food for further reflection – and action. This book comprises multiple pictorial and textual levels: it’s a montage of (outside) texts and pictures with cross-references and background information about everyday life as well as (contemporary) art and art history. The texts and pictures are interlinked with a view to opening up new avenues of thought. The images do not show completed works, they document working processes and designs for the most part produced in class"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 208

Uniform Title

• Edition Patrick Frey (Series) No 208.
• Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 208.

Subject

• Art schools
• Art schools > Zurich
• Art students
• Art students > Zurich
• Artists as teachers
• Artists as teachers > Zurich
• Arts > Study and teaching
• Arts > Study and teaching > Zurich
• College students' art
• College students' art > Zurich
• Switzerland > Zurich
• Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9783906803081
• 3906803082

LCCN

9783906803081

OCLC

1002808402

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library