Originally published in 1998, Easels of Utopia presents a discussion of art's duration and contingency within the avant garde's aesthetic parameters, which throughout this century have constructed, influenced, and informed our definitions of modernity. In this context the book reads Umberto Boccioni's Futurism as reminiscent of Thomist realism; proposes Caravaggism's historical relevance to the election of individuality in post-war realism; and draws the readers attention to the aesthetic implications in Carlo Carrà's metaphysical art and its reappraisal of the early Renaissance. Following a contextual analysis of the historic avant-garde in Part One, Part Two presents parallel discussions of Italian and British questions, articulated by the works of Marino Marini, Francis Bacon, Renato Guttuso and Stanley Spencer in their return to individuality within art's aesthetic construct. The author argues that this initiates a return to 'lost' beginnings where form seeks knowledge, content regains an ability to anarchize, and art recognizes its contingent condition.
By:
John Baldacchino
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 217g
ISBN: 9781138616233
ISBN 10: 1138616230
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 31 March 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Modus Operandi Part I: Contexts of Quidditas 1. Name, Tragedy, Farce. The Story so Far 2. Searching in Absolute. Aquinas, Bergson, Boccioni 3. Ethical Plasticism. Boccioni, Carrà, Marinetti 4. Myth, Duration. Croce, Sorel, Bergson Part II: Utterance of Fact 5. Re-Beauty. Carrà, Duns Scotus, De Chirico 6. Caravaggist Genealogies. Caravaggio, Hegel 7. Aeneas’s Guise. Marini, Bacon 8. Rehearsals. Spencer, Guttuso Bibliography
