Description: Meanings of Abstract Art : Between Nature and Theory, Hardcover by Crowther, Paul (EDT); Wunsche, Isabel (EDT), ISBN 0415899931, ISBN-13 9780415899932, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 ofit 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.)Th 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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Book Title: Meanings of Abstract Art : Between Nature and Theory
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
