Meanings of Abstract Art

Between Nature and Theory

Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche

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Routledge
10 October 2016

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

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

"Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation ""of"". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, and states of affairs).

Abstract art takes many different forms, but there are shared key structural features centered on two basic relations to nature. The first abstracts from nature, to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second affirms a 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 covers three categories: classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction); post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments); and the broader historical and philosophical scope."

Edited by: Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138233867
ISBN 10: 1138233862
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 10 October 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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