Gudrun Bielz

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  136 To what extent do people believe that art can contribute to positive change?
  By Jade Wildy · University of South Australia 
  Gudrun Bielz · University of Reading

  Thanks for this Jade. I like your approach and now understand the context. I am in a hurry, but would like to point out a project by one of my collea... [more]

  Thanks for this Jade. I like your approach and now understand the context. I am in a hurry, but would like to point out a project by one of my colleagues, which might interest you. http://www.katecorder.net/blog/cultivation-field Interesting that you bring in Beuys. I was fortunate enough to have met him and listened to some of his lectures as well as documenting them in Vienna quite a while ago. Yes, Beuys and _die soziale plastik" (social sculpture) .......
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• Answer added in Social Anthropology
  136 To what extent do people believe that art can contribute to positive change?
  By Jade Wildy · University of South Australia 
  Gudrun Bielz · University of Reading

  ad Hugo Bello, Quote: "I understand all the comments we have here are probably coming from the point that Gudrun Bielz is trying to make that the ques... [more]

  ad Hugo Bello, Quote: "I understand all the comments we have here are probably coming from the point that Gudrun Bielz is trying to make that the question is too open.... maybe that is the intention of Jade Wildy so this kind of debate happens. " Hmm, I will come up with some scenarios: 1) Shall I assume that she is naive and does not know that art has been something else than merely decorative for millenia? 2) Or shall I assume that she wants answers that she might have to answer herself (perhaps she is writing a thesis?) 3) Or is she conducting a series of questions that she intends to publish as some form of philosophical art historical psychological mesh? I still maintain that the question is too generalised, and would really like to know the opinion of the person, who asked this question. If she wants debate, she has to contribute to it, too. So, Jade, please appear on this thread and give us your thoughts!
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  136 To what extent do people believe that art can contribute to positive change?
  By Jade Wildy · University of South Australia 
  Gudrun Bielz · University of Reading

  A generalised answer to a generalised question is: Art can change society as much as philosophy and science. 

  A generalised answer to a generalised question is: Art can change society as much as philosophy and science.
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• Answer added in Social Anthropology
  136 To what extent do people believe that art can contribute to positive change?
  By Jade Wildy · University of South Australia 
  Gudrun Bielz · University of Reading

  Ad Colin Mercier: About Mussolini's 'incorporation' of the futurist party (I was not specific enough, as it was the party and not the movement) and th... [more]

  Ad Colin Mercier: About Mussolini's 'incorporation' of the futurist party (I was not specific enough, as it was the party and not the movement) and the Futurists' support of Fascism. Yes, I know about this, I only pointed some stuff out to the person who asked the much too generalised and not contextualised question. You have enlightened us about Futurism in more detail. Nevertheless, the futurist political party was swallowed up by Mussolini's Fascist Party in 1919. There is a rather interesting general article about the ambiguity of the futurist political movement and Marinetti's critique on Mussolini after years of having supported the Fascists. http://www.historytoday.com/richard-jensen/futurism-and-fascism
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  136 To what extent do people believe that art can contribute to positive change?
  By Jade Wildy · University of South Australia 
  Gudrun Bielz · University of Reading

  Art was not that decorative when Bauhaus was around (early 20th century). There was a rather good exhibition at the Barbican in London. What about art... [more]

  Art was not that decorative when Bauhaus was around (early 20th century). There was a rather good exhibition at the Barbican in London. What about artists around the Russian Revolution, art was part of the political renewal (Eisenstein, Malevich). There are so many artists and art movements that were part of bigger societal ideas, and helped forming them. In a more unfortunate way, the Futurists (Marinetti et al in Italy), whose political movement was incorporated by Mussolini's Fascist party. In the 1960s and 70s, there was "political art" in Europe and the USA (going together with 1968) -- to name a few: Kelley, McCarthy, EXPORT .... What about Gerhard Richter's Stammheim Chamber, artists like Hans Haacke, Cosey Fanny Tutti and Gustav Metzger here in the UK (1970s), Terry Atkinson, Victor Burgin ...... and so many more. So, which time frame do you have in mind? The question is slightly too general ....
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