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Marcel Duchamp and the Creative Act

Marcel Duchamp and the Creative Act

Victor Obsatz, Marcel Duchamp,1953by Jacquelynn Baas and Paul SharpeWidely recognized as the most important artist of the modern era, Marcel Duchamp forever changed how art is made and understood. His groundbreaking work, and his vision of what art can be, have...

Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life

Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life

by Jacquelynn BaasPublished by MIT Press, 2019. A groundbreaking reading of Duchamp's work as informed by Asian “esoterism,” energetic spiritual practices identifying creative energy with the erotic impulse. Considered by many to be the most important artist of the...

Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life

Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life

by Jacquelynn BaasPublished by the University of Chicago Press with the Hood Museum of Art, 2011. Fluxus – from the Latin, meaning “to flow” – was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the...

Learning Mind: Experience Into Art

Learning Mind: Experience Into Art

co-edited by Jacquelynn Baas and Mary Jane JacobPublished by University of California Press, 2009. How is art conceived, created, and experienced? How is it taught? How does the act of viewing a work make the viewer part of that work? Learning Mind: Experience Into...

Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art

Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art

co-edited by Jacquelynn Baas and Mary Jane JacobPublished by University of California Press, 2004. Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art documents the growing presence of Buddhist perspectives in contemporary culture, a shift that began in the nineteenth century and is now...

The Art of Joan Brown

The Art of Joan Brown

by Jacquelynn Baas and Karen TsujimotoPublished by University of California Press, 1998. The prolific talents of San Francisco Bay Area painter Joan Brown (1938-1990) inform every page of this shining testament to a singular artist. For Brown, art was a means of...

The Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France: 1850-1900

The Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France: 1850-1900

by Jacquelynn Baas and Richard S. FieldPublished by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1984 The catalogue to a traveling exhibition, The Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France, 1850-1900 is devoted to an important medium in the development of the Western...