The photographic multiples of Joseph Beuys as an extension of himself

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Speaking of Things – An Introduction 9
5. The Autonomous Aesthetic of Allure: Mary Bauermeister’s Needless Needles and Graham Harman’s Object Philosophy 17
6. Simply things: A phenomenological interpretation from technology to poetry 33
7. Origins and Ends: Understanding the Medium of Painting According to Heidegger’s Truth 47
8. Object as Symbol: Baudrillard’s Thanatopoietic Form 65
9. Co-Production: Towards a Relational Ontology of Aesthetic Objects 85
10. Correspondences: Exploring the Echoes of Jack Spicer’s Poetics in the Paintings of Matt Connors 101
11. The Object of Non-Aesthetics 113
12. Solid Gifts: Seven Lessons from the Fossil 125
13. Massimo Bartolini’s Untitled Untitled (2001): The Strategy for Visualizing the Hyperspace 139
14. The Lure of Absence: Can there be Process without Artists? 155
15. A noisy love affair: The Language of Things in the Works of Mark Leckey and Musa paradisiaca 171
16. The photographic multiples of Joseph Beuys as an extension of himself 185
17. Obsolescence and reinvention: the case study of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva 197
18. A Two-Way Mirror: Narcissism and Surveillance from the Closed Circuit to the Network 213
19. Shape of Things, Shapes of Time 225
20. El Anatsui “Triumphant Scale”: Material Realism and the Logic of Things 237
21. Authors 257