Practices of abstract art : between anarchism and appropriation /
edited by Isabel Wünsche and Wiebke Gronemeyer.
- First unabridgedition.
- New Castle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
Includes bibliographical references.
-- The politics of abstract art: between the individual and the universal -- Wassily Kandinsky and František Kupka: between metaphysics and psychophysics / Creating the ideal: František Kupka's social reform and anarchist abstraction / Kandinsky, anarchism, and the narrative of modernism / Producing a grammar of painting: color and form in the manuscripts of Ivan Kliun / Barcelona--Paris--"New Cusco"--Montevideo: the routes to roots of Joaquín Torres-García's South American abstraction / Congdon's abstract art and the metaphysics of immediacy / The abstraction of behavior / Digital abstraction: modeling intersensory perception in electronic art / 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 / Free art in free Berlin: German-American support for Berlin art in the 1950s / The Russian boom: abstract art as a means for cultural diplomacy between the Soviet Union and West Germany (1970-1990) / Abstract art in South Africa: then and now / What is the role of abstraction within the concerns of visual art language contemporaneously? / The appropriation of "abstraction" beyond the aesthetic / Refresh abstraction! day glo neo geo / Isabel Wünsche -- Naomi Hume -- Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Viktoria Schindler -- Aarnoud Rommnes -- Nieves Acedo -- Gordon Monro -- Birgit Mersmann. -- Franziska Müller -- Dorothea Schöne -- Elena Korowin -- Marilyn Martin -- Wendy Kelly -- Wiebke Gronemeyer -- Pamela C. Scorzin.
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.