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A Forest of Symbols - Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that
investigates the concerns they shared with scientists of the
period-the problem of subjectivity in particular. In A Forest of
Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those
writers and artists in the late nineteenth century associated with
the Symbolist movement. For Pop, "symbolist" denotes an art that is
self-conscious about its modes of making meaning, and he argues
that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct
access to viewers and readers by constant revision of its material
means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a
page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The
symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but as a revolution
in sense and how to conceptualize the world. The concerns of
symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by
theoretical scientists of the period, who were dissatisfied with
the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, which made
shared knowledge seem unattainable. The problem of subjectivity in
particular, of what in one's experience can and cannot be shared,
was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and
to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop offers close
readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and
Mallarme, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and
Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van
Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell-filling
in a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of
modernity and its consequences.
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Imprint: |
Zone Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2019 |
First published: |
2019 |
Authors: |
Andrei Pop
(Associate Professor)
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Dimensions: |
237 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-935408-36-9 |
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LSN: |
1-935408-36-4 |
Barcode: |
9781935408369 |
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