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The Myth of Abstraction - The Hidden Origins of Abstract Art in German Literature (Hardcover)
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The Myth of Abstraction - The Hidden Origins of Abstract Art in German Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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An alternative genealogy of abstract art, featuring the crucial
role of 19th-century German literature in shaping it aesthetically,
culturally, and socially. Once upon a time (or more specifically,
in 1911!) there was an artist named Wassily Kandinsky who created
the world's first abstract artwork and forever altered the course
of art history - or so the traditional story goes. A good story,
but not the full story. The Myth of Abstraction reveals that
abstract art was envisioned long before Kandinsky, in the pages of
nineteenth-century German literature. It originated from the
written word, described by German writers who portrayed in language
what did not yet exist as art. Yet if writers were already writing
about abstract art, why were painters not painting it? To solve the
riddle, this book features the work of three canonical
nineteenth-century authors - Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe, and Gottfried Keller - who imagine, theorize, and
describe abstract art in their literary writing, sometimes warning
about the revolution it will cause not just in art, but in all
aspects of social life. Through close readings of their textual
images and visual analyses of actual paintings, Andrea Meyertholen
shows how these writers anticipated the twentieth-century birth of
abstract art by establishing the necessary conditions for its
production, reception, and consumption. The first study to bring
these early descriptions of abstraction together and investigate
their significance, The Myth of Abstraction writes an alternative
genealogy featuring the crucial role of literature in shaping
abstract art in aesthetic, cultural, and social terms.
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