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Practices of abstract art : between anarchism and appropriation / edited by Isabel Wünsche and Wiebke Gronemeyer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Castle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2016.Edition: First unabridgeditionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443856867
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N6494 .P733 2016
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Contents:
-- The politics of abstract art: between the individual and the universal -- Wassily Kandinsky and František Kupka: between metaphysics and psychophysics / Isabel Wünsche -- Creating the ideal: František Kupka's social reform and anarchist abstraction / Naomi Hume -- Kandinsky, anarchism, and the narrative of modernism / Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Producing a grammar of painting: color and form in the manuscripts of Ivan Kliun / Viktoria Schindler -- Barcelona--Paris--"New Cusco"--Montevideo: the routes to roots of Joaquín Torres-García's South American abstraction / Aarnoud Rommnes -- Congdon's abstract art and the metaphysics of immediacy / Nieves Acedo -- The abstraction of behavior / Gordon Monro -- Digital abstraction: modeling intersensory perception in electronic art / Birgit Mersmann. -- The interculturality of abstract art: between co-optation and appropriation -- Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe--artistic concepts and cultural policy in postwar Germany / Franziska Müller -- Free art in free Berlin: German-American support for Berlin art in the 1950s / Dorothea Schöne -- The Russian boom: abstract art as a means for cultural diplomacy between the Soviet Union and West Germany (1970-1990) / Elena Korowin -- Abstract art in South Africa: then and now / Marilyn Martin -- What is the role of abstraction within the concerns of visual art language contemporaneously? / Wendy Kelly -- The appropriation of "abstraction" beyond the aesthetic / Wiebke Gronemeyer -- Refresh abstraction! day glo neo geo / Pamela C. Scorzin.
Subject: Recent decades have seen a renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, particularly regarding its ability to speak to the political, social, and cultural conditions of our times. This collection of essays, which looks at historical examples of artistic practice from the early pioneers of abstraction to late modernism, investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years.
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Recent decades have seen a renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, particularly regarding its ability to speak to the political, social, and cultural conditions of our times. This collection of essays, which looks at historical examples of artistic practice from the early pioneers of abstraction to late modernism, investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years.

-- The politics of abstract art: between the individual and the universal -- Wassily Kandinsky and František Kupka: between metaphysics and psychophysics / Isabel Wünsche -- Creating the ideal: František Kupka's social reform and anarchist abstraction / Naomi Hume -- Kandinsky, anarchism, and the narrative of modernism / Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Producing a grammar of painting: color and form in the manuscripts of Ivan Kliun / Viktoria Schindler -- Barcelona--Paris--"New Cusco"--Montevideo: the routes to roots of Joaquín Torres-García's South American abstraction / Aarnoud Rommnes -- Congdon's abstract art and the metaphysics of immediacy / Nieves Acedo -- The abstraction of behavior / Gordon Monro -- Digital abstraction: modeling intersensory perception in electronic art / Birgit Mersmann. -- The interculturality of abstract art: between co-optation and appropriation -- Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe--artistic concepts and cultural policy in postwar Germany / Franziska Müller -- Free art in free Berlin: German-American support for Berlin art in the 1950s / Dorothea Schöne -- The Russian boom: abstract art as a means for cultural diplomacy between the Soviet Union and West Germany (1970-1990) / Elena Korowin -- Abstract art in South Africa: then and now / Marilyn Martin -- What is the role of abstraction within the concerns of visual art language contemporaneously? / Wendy Kelly -- The appropriation of "abstraction" beyond the aesthetic / Wiebke Gronemeyer -- Refresh abstraction! day glo neo geo / Pamela C. Scorzin.

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