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Waldo Bien
Reviewing a renowned Dutch artist's work, this examination shows how Waldo Bien uses a variety of forms of artistic expression. From sculpture and drawing to photography and installations, these images explore the boundaries where history, ecology, geography, and ethnology meet, coming together to create the human experience. This volume is the second comprehensive publication of an artistic complex, arranged by the Free International University, founded in the 1970s by Waldo Bien's teacher, famed German artist Joseph Beuys.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2007
About the author
Patrick Healy
49 books6 followersPatrick Healy, born Dublin, 1955, has been engaged in research, writing and public performances for almost 30 years. His first novella Up in the Air and Down was followed by publications in art and architectural history,monographs on individual artists, and books on the philosphy of science and aesthetics.
His performed live reading of Finnegans Wake was described by Robert Anton Wilson as one of the outstanding feats of 20th Century art.
Under the direction of Profesor Claude Schaefer in Paris he made specialist research on the work of Max Raphael and German Expressionism.Part of that study included work on Carl Einstein, and the translation of his writings into English.
He is currently engaged in research at the Delft School of Design, Delft, and in the Free International University, Amsterdam.He is completing a work entitled The Model and its Architecture for the Delft School of Design, and a Karl Kraus reader for Penguin books, London, which will appear in 2009.
He was the first invited participant in the Amsterdam year long Artist in Residence program, and has lived there for most of the last ten years.
He participated at the 52nd Venice Biennale during the Eventi Collaterali, and has a volume of poems being published in Amsterdam in the coming months, The Papyrus Dream. He lives and writes in Amsterdam, and contributes to a broad variety of publications and porjects.
His performed live reading of Finnegans Wake was described by Robert Anton Wilson as one of the outstanding feats of 20th Century art.
Under the direction of Profesor Claude Schaefer in Paris he made specialist research on the work of Max Raphael and German Expressionism.Part of that study included work on Carl Einstein, and the translation of his writings into English.
He is currently engaged in research at the Delft School of Design, Delft, and in the Free International University, Amsterdam.He is completing a work entitled The Model and its Architecture for the Delft School of Design, and a Karl Kraus reader for Penguin books, London, which will appear in 2009.
He was the first invited participant in the Amsterdam year long Artist in Residence program, and has lived there for most of the last ten years.
He participated at the 52nd Venice Biennale during the Eventi Collaterali, and has a volume of poems being published in Amsterdam in the coming months, The Papyrus Dream. He lives and writes in Amsterdam, and contributes to a broad variety of publications and porjects.
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