Meanings of abstract art
between nature and theory
By Paul Crowther and Isabel Wünsche
"Meanings of abstract art" was published by Routledge in 2012 - New York and the language of the book is English.
“Meanings of abstract art” Metadata:
- Title: Meanings of abstract art
- Authors: Paul CrowtherIsabel Wünsche
- Language: English
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: 2012
- Publish Location: New York
“Meanings of abstract art” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Modern Art - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies - Nature (Aesthetics) - Abstract Art - Philosophy - ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) - Abstrakte Kunst - Naturen - Contemporary (1945- ) - Ästhetik - Interpretation - Estetiska aspekter - History - ART - SOCIAL SCIENCE - Natur - Naturverständnis - Media Studies - Abstrakt konst - Art, abstract - Art - Philosophie - Nature (Esthétique) - Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
- Time: 20th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: pages cm
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL25180707M - OL16474684W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 730404070 - 815383143
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2012001081
- ISBN-13: 9780415899932
- All ISBNs: 9780415899932
AI-generated Review of “Meanings of abstract art”:
"Meanings of abstract art" Description:
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"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 scope"--
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