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Meanings of Abstract Art - Between Nature and Theory (Paperback)
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Meanings of Abstract Art - Between Nature and Theory (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
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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.
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