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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Tomas Schmit – Sachen machen
| Editor | Jenny Graser, Barbara Wien |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2021 |
| Cover | Paperback with flaps |
| Language | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-5126-1 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Weight | 1110 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Jenny Graser, Dagmar Korbacher, Kasper König et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Kupferstickkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
| Article ID | art-49602 |
Grasping the World through Drawing:
When the European Fluxus group split in 1964 after two eventful years, Tomas Schmit, who had been involved in the group’s actions as a performer, gradually withdrew from performing. From 1966 he devoted himself primarily to writing and drawing. But the idea of the stage as a place where an action is performed in front of and with an audience did not vanish from his art. From then on, Schmit staged “the performance of drawing” on paper. In this catalogue, the close interlocking of performance and drawing in Schmit’s entire oeuvre is examined for the first time. The publication further reflects on the manifold spectrum of his drawing and language art spanning almost 40 years.
TOMAS SCHMIT (1943–2006) came to art as an autodidact, learning from Fluxus artists such as Nam June Paik, George Maciunas, Arthur Köpcke, and Ludwig Gosewitz, with whom he began performing in 1962. His drawings provide complex, often humorous commentary and engage with subjects as diverse as language, logic, cybernetics, biology, behavioral science, and perception.
