Yes, and genuine thanks to the many strangers – wherever you are - who described ephemeral art experiences that delighted them during special contexts, or during their own rites of passage. It is an attitude that seems contagious or endemic among intellectuals. Yes, and there were also wry remarks about ‘bothering to document the ephemeral.’ The latter became expected. There are also those who nodded, stared a bit, and looked away with slow smiles after my answer to their inevitable question: ‘What are you writing about?’ A few added their two bits, and some comments were helpful. And then there are the many nameless persons in other countries who invited me to participate in making ephemeral art, or to enjoy the special contexts of their art. Others who learned about this project and informed me about pertinent research or examples are gratefully mentioned in the text. Those who responded to my questionnaires about ephemeral art are acknowledged in the text. You know who you are through the years, and I have appreciated your help. Wassily Kandinsky (from a 1904 letter, cited in Weiss)Ĭreative people are curious, flexible, persistent,ĭuring the too-many years it has taken to gather data and complete this study, there were friends who politely queried me about the status of my ‘research.’ Some even offered ephemeral art examples to cheer me on my wandering way. I don’t care if it is hard or easy, takes much or little time, it is useful or not…. If I play in this way, every nerve within me vibrates, music rings in my whole body and God is in my heart. I do everything that I must: it is ready within me and it must find expression. So arise works of art, so arise also things that are not yet works of art, but rather only stations, ways to that end, but which already have within them a little glimmer of light, a Klang (resonance)….
For him, (the artist) the question what for has little sense. He agonizes, tries to find an expression for his feelings and thoughts he speaks with color, form, drawing, sound, word, etc. You say: Play! Of course! Everything the artist makes is after all play.
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You needn’t ask the purpose of this or that work: they all have only one purpose - I had to make them, because I can free myself in no other way from the thought (or dream)…. Ken Friedman: The World that Is, the World that Is To BeĮrotic Cuisine: A Natural History of Aphrodisiac CookeryĮrgonomics for Home-Based Workers: Use your Brain to Save Your BodyĪ Promise Kept: Memoir of Tibetans in India (with Germaine Krull) By the same authorĮarly Colonial Religious Drama in Mexico: From Zompantli to Golgotha (Catholic University of America Press) date: HUMAN TRACES: EPHEMERAL ART Image0001.jpg MARILYN EKDAHL RAVICZ, Ph.D. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019919737 The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
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