Meanings of Abstract Art : Between Nature and Theory.
Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nat...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1. Life into Art Nature Philosophy, The Life Sciences and Abstract Art; 2. Mondrian's First Diamond Composition Spatial Totality and the Plane of the Starry Sky; 3. Man, Space and the Zero of Form Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism and the Natural World; 4. The Role of Mathematical Structure, Natural Form, and Pattern in the Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky the Quest for Order and Unity; 5. "We Want to Produce Like a Plant That Produces a Fruit "Hans Arp and the "Nature Principle." | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6. Natural Forces and Phenomena as Inspiration and Meaning in Early American Abstraction7. Jackson Pollock the Sin of Images; 8. Clyff Ord Still's Regionalist Shamanism; 9. "Man Is Present" Barnett Newman's Search for the Experience of the Self; 10. Nature, Entropy and Robert Smithson's Utopian Vision of a Culture of Decay; 11. Embodied Nature Isamu Noguchi's Intetra Fountain; 12. The Arte Povera Experience Nature Re-presented; 13. Nature's Hand Writing Abstraction in the Work of Henri Michaux; 14. Abstract Art and Techno-nature the Postmodern Dimension. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 15. Art, Beauty and the Sacred Four Ways to Abstraction16. The Complexities of "Abstracting" from Nature; 17. Meaning in Abstract Art from Ur-nature to the Transperceptual; Bibliography; Contributors; Index. | |
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