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Shapiro, Gary Michael was born on June 17, 1941 in St. Paul. Son of Irving H. and Florence Beverly (Gleckman) Shapiro.
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"... Shapiro's book is bursting with thoughts, and if one is willing to mine them, one is sure to find items of interest or provocation." ―The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Taking issue with a widely held view that Nietzsche's writings are essentially fragmentary or aphoristic, Gary Shapiro focuses on the narrative mode that Nietzsche adopted in many of his works. Such themes as eternal recurrence, the question of origins, and the problematics of self-knowledge are reinterpreted in the context of the narratives in which Nietzsche develops or employs them.
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The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship, the linear historiography of high modernism, and the limitations of the museum prefigures key themes in postmodern criticism while underscoring the uniqueness of Smithson's own work as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Gary Shapiro's elegant and incisive study of Smithson's career is the first book to address the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity. Ranging from Smithson's best known works such as Spiral Jetty and Partially Buried Woodshed to his photographs, films, and theoretical readings and writings, Shapiro's masterful book analyzes Smithson's art in relation to the legacy of American art of the 1960s and central philosophical themes in its contemporary reception.
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Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: Shapiro explores an interrelated series of themes that contest and offer alternatives to some of the traditional concepts of metaphysics. The notion of gift giving and related ideas are seen to play fundamental roles in the economy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Shapiro articulates the relevance of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Mauss, and Georges Bataille for the thought of the gift and shows that Nietzsche's writing contains a conception of an archaic economy that is radically different from the order of property and exchange usually associated with Western metaphysics. This leads to a critique of Martin Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche as a philosopher of value. Shapiro reads the fourth part of Zarathustra as the libretto for an anti-Wagnerian, postmodern opera in which food, noise, feasting, and parasitism are the major themes, and in which the thought of eternal recurrence is sung and orchestrated in ways that usually go unnoticed. He demonstrates that the fourth part constitutes a rigorous analysis of the logic of the supplementary and the parasitic. In the final chapter, Shapiro undertakes a reading of the classical texts presupposed by Nietzsche's claim that Zarathustra will not be understood unless one hears its "halcyon tone." By juxtaposing Nietzsche's halcyon with the Homeric version of the myth, Shapiro shows how Nietzsche's appeal to the halcyon evokes a premetaphysical economy and a voice suppressed by ontotheology
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The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. This book addresses the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity.
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( The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar Ame...)
The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship, the linear historiography of high modernism, and the limitations of the museum prefigures key themes in postmodern criticism while underscoring the uniqueness of Smithson's own work as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Gary Shapiro's elegant and incisive study of Smithson's career is the first book to address the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity. Ranging from Smithson's best known works such as Spiral Jetty and Partially Buried Woodshed to his photographs, films, and theoretical readings and writings, Shapiro's masterful book analyzes Smithson's art in relation to the legacy of American art of the 1960s and central philosophical themes in its contemporary reception.
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Shapiro, Gary Michael was born on June 17, 1941 in St. Paul. Son of Irving H. and Florence Beverly (Gleckman) Shapiro.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Columbia University, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1970; postgraduate, Yale University, 1963-1964.
Instructor, Columbia University, New York City, 1967-1970; assistant professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1970-1975; associate professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1975-1981; professor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1981-1991; professor philosophy, Tucker Boatwright professor in humanities, U. Richmond, Virginia, since 1991.
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(The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar Ameri...)
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Woodrow Wilson fellow. Member International Association for Philosophy and Literature (Executive Committee 1984-1989), North America Nietzsche Society (Executive Committee 1983-1989), American Philo. Association (commission on lectures public and research 1985-1988), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Anne Goll, 1961 (divorced 1966). 1 child, Marya Suzanne. Married Lynne Margolies, 1968 (divorced 1991).
Children: David Benjamin, Rachel Shulamith.