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Between Nature and Theory
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Description

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 nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, and states of affairs). Abstract art takes many different forms, but there are shared key structural features centered on two basic relations to nature. The first abstracts from nature, to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second affirms a 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 covers three categories: 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.

Author Biography:

Paul Crowther is Chair of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway Isabel Wünsche is Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University, Bremen
Release date Australia
October 10th, 2016
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Contributors
  • Edited by Isabel Wunsche
  • Edited by Paul Crowther
Illustrations
70 Halftones, black and white; 70 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
300
ISBN-13
9781138233867
Product ID
25581537

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