Description: Title: Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory Editor: Crowther, Paul Publisher: Routledge Binding: Hardcover Pages: 310 Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d Product Weight: 1.2 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780415899932 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. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Routledge
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Publication Name: Meanings of Abstract Art : between Nature and Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Media Studies, History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Isabel Wünsche
Subject Area: Art, Social Science
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
