Lebenskünstler

…art history can only end, in a context where history does not end if art is separated off from the world in a crucial way… … For Baruchello, his farm is crucially both a context for generating works of art, and as such a context is itself a kind of artwo…

In Plato’s view, it is not what we learn about art that is most important, but what we learn from it.

Thoreau and Okakura devoted their professional time to writing about living, especially about what constitutes a life well lived.

…a conversation on what we love about art and philosophy, and how that love has ineluctably become a part of our own living.

Such a vision of the work of the mind leaves it open to anyone that has a desire for it.

…many of the new forms of collaborative and participatory art make no distinction between art as political praxis and political praxis itself; art, it is claimed, is a form of political praxis. … …”enclosure” is as much cognitive and cultural as it is eco…

When it happens that a worklike approach to life becomes one’s only approach, this special difficulty is termed work-fixation.

…socially engaged art is not simply a development within the art field to be described from an art historical perspective alone, but rather a specific form of activity within society. … This is because Beuys was concerned with the development of an unders…

[mise en scène] Multiple lines of inquiry – to enact a series of expansions from art to aesthetics and thus art education to aesthetic education.

A partial answer is here.

The shift: Library science -> Information Science only tells part of the story.

Image via Jerzy Ludwiński Notes from the Future of Art “…one can think of art as a star that exploded long ago and we mistakenly believe that the originating object still exists because the light from it still shines so brightly.

Summaries found here.