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Item Number: 114992
Title: Meanings of Abstract Art : Between Nature and Theory
Author: Crowther, Paul ; Isabel Wunsche (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780415899932
Description: London: Routledge, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 300pp. Contents : Introduction 1. Life Into Art: Nature Philosophy, the Life-Sciences, and Abstract Art; Isabel Wünsche 2. Piet Mondrian’s First Diamond Composition: Spatial Totality and the Plane of the Starry Sky; Marek Wieczorek 3. Man, Space and the Zero of Form: Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism and the Natural World; Christina Lodder 4. The Role of Mathematical Structure, Natural Form and Pattern in the Art Theory of Wassily Kandinsky; Christopher Short 5. "We want to be like a plant that produces fruit": Hans Arp and the Nature Principle"; Astrid von Asten 6. Natural Forces and Phenomena as Inspiration in Early American Abstraction; Herb R. Hartel Jr. 7. Jackson Pollock: The Sin of Images; Elizabeth Langhorne 8. Clyfford Still’s Regional Shamanism; Stephen Polcari 9. "Man is Present": Barnet Newman’s Search for the Experience of the Self; Eva Ehninger 10. Nature, Entropy, and Robert Smithson’s Utopian Vision of a Culture of Decay; John G. Hatch 11. Embodied Nature Isamu Noguchi’s Intetra Fountain; Dominika Glogowski 12. The Arte Povera Experience: Nature Re-Presented; Laura Petican 13. Nature’s Hand: Writing Abstraction in the Work of Henri Michaux; Birgit Mersmann 14. Art, Beauty, and the Sacred: Four Ways to Abstraction; Karsten Harries 15. The Complexities of Abstracting from Nature; Andrew Inkpin 16. The Meaning of Abstract Art : From Ur-Nature to the Transperceptual; Paul Crowther. (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

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