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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherEdition Axel Menges Gmbh
ISBN-103869050179
ISBN-139783869050171
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038725299
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameAuf Der Suche Nach Verlorenen Paradiesen
LanguageGerman
Publication Year2020
SubjectEnvironmental & Land Art
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt
AuthorHans Dieter Schaal
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight41.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width8.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-464013
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal712
SynopsisWith the increase of general knowledge about the world, nature, the cosmos and with the development of technology, the urge grew - quite heretically - to kill old, fairy-tale religious stories as lies. Every scientific knowledge increased our level of knowledge, thus our education, but led to a renewed expulsion. First people regarded the earth as the centre of the universe, then they had to learn that we, together with our planet, orbit the sun and are only a tiny round sphere among billions of other spheres in the Milky Way and the entire cosmos., Reality has so far provided no evidence for the existence of a place or state like a paradise, offering at best only momentary or temporary approximations - in certain works of art, for in-stance, or in a very few brief moments of our lives. In the historical part of his book, Hans Dieter Schaal describes the ways in which people have tried to find and to create their own paradises. The final part of the book is dedicated to his own artistic analysis of the term "paradise", presented in the form of texts, sketches and collages.