Meanings of Abstract Art

Between Nature and Theory

Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche

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Routledge
19 June 2012

Theory of art; Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism; Media studies

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

"This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation ""of"". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or break down and reconfigure the mimetic conventions of pictorial art and sculpture. Obviously this means that abstract art takes many different forms. However, this diversity should not mask some key structural features; these center on two basic relations to nature (understanding nature in the broadest sense -- to comprise the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, and states of affairs). The first involves abstracting from nature, to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second involves abstract art as the affirmation of a relatively unconstrained 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 contains three categories of essays: 1) those on classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction), 2) those on post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments), and 3) those of a broader art historical and philosophical"

Edited by: Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9780415899932
ISBN 10: 0415899931
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 19 June 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Crowther is Chair of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway Isabel Wunsche is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University, Bremen