Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory by Paul Crowther (English) H

Description: Meanings of Abstract Art by Paul Crowther, Isabel WÜnsche This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. It covers three categories of essays: classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction); post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments); and the broader historical and philosophical scope. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or break down and reconfigure the mimetic conventions of pictorial art and sculpture. Obviously this means that abstract art takes many different forms. However, this diversity should not mask some key structural features; these center on two basic relations to nature (understanding nature in the broadest sense -- to comprise the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, and states of affairs). The first involves abstracting from nature, to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second involves abstract art as the affirmation of a relatively unconstrained natural creativity that issues in new, autonomous forms that are not constrained by mimetic conventions. (Such creativity is often attributed to the power of the unconscious.)The book contains three categories of essays: 1) those on classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction), 2) those on post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments), and 3) those of a broader art historical and philosophical Author Biography Paul Crowther is Chair of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway Isabel Wunsche is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University, Bremen Table of Contents Selected Contents: 1. Life into Art: Nature Philosophy, the Life Sciences, and Abstract Art Isabel WÜnsche 2. Mondrians First Diamond Composition: Spatial Totality and the Plane of the Starry Sky Marek Wieczorek 3. Man, Space and the Zero of Form: Kazimir Malevichs Suprematism and the Natural World Christina Lodder 4. The Role of Mathematical Structure, Natural Form and Pattern in the Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky: The Quest for Order and Unity Christopher Short 5. "We want to produce like a plant that produces a fruit": Hans Arp and the "Nature Principle" Astrid von Asten 6. Natural Forces and Phenomena as Inspiration and Meaning in Early American Abstraction Herbert R. Hartel, Jr. 7. Jackson Pollock: The Sin of Images Elizabeth Langhorne 8. Clyfford Stills Regionalist Shamanism Stephen Polcari 9. "Man is Present": Barnett Newmans Search for the Experience of the Self Eva Ehninger 10. Nature, Entropy, and Robert Smithsons Utopian Vision of a Culture of Decay John G. Hatch 11. Embodied Nature: Isamu Noguchis Intetra Fountain Dominika Glogowski 12. The Arte Povera Experience: Nature Re-Presented Laura Petican 13. Natures Hand: Writing Abstraction in the Work of Henri Michaux Birgit Mersmann 14. Abstract Art and Techno-Nature: The Postmodern Dimension Paul Crowther 15. Art, Beauty, and the Sacred: Four Ways to Abstraction Karsten Harries 16. The Complexities of "Abstracting" from Nature Andrew Inkpin 17.Meaning in Abstract Art: From Ur-Nature to the Transperceptual Paul Crowther Details ISBN0415899931 Language English ISBN-10 0415899931 ISBN-13 9780415899932 Media Book Format Hardcover Edition Description Tion Short Title MEANINGS OF ABSTRACT ART Series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies Series Number 02 Author Isabel WÜnsche Year 2012 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Between Nature and Theory Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Isabel WÜnsche AU Release Date 2012-06-19 NZ Release Date 2012-06-19 UK Release Date 2012-06-19 Pages 310 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2012-06-19 Alternative 9781138233867 DEWEY 709.04052 Illustrations 70 Halftones, black and white; 70 Illustrations, black and white Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134432894;

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