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050 00 $aN6490$b.M389 2012
082 00 $a709.04/052$223
084 $aART015110$aSOC052000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aMeanings of abstract art :$bbetween nature and theory /$cedited by Paul Crowther and Isabel Wünsche.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2012, ©2012.
300 $aix, 300 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aRoutledge advances in art and visual studies ;$v2
520 $a"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"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aArt, Modern$y20th century$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aArt, Abstract.
650 0 $aNature (Aesthetics)
650 7 $aART / History / Contemporary (1945-).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aCrowther, Paul,$eeditor.
700 1 $aWünsche, Isabel,$eeditor.
830 0 $aRoutledge advances in art and visual studies ;$v2.
852 00 $bfaxlc$hN6490$i.M389 2012