Theories of the Nonobject
Title | Theories of the Nonobject PDF eBook |
Author | M—nica Amor |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2016-03-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520286626 |
"Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela, with case studies of specific movements, artists, and critics. Amor traces their role in the significant reconceptualization of the artwork that Brazilian critic and poet Ferreira Gullar heralded in 'Theory of the Nonobject' in 1959, with specific attention to a group of major art figures including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Gego, whose work proposed engaged forms of spectatorship that dismissed medium-based understandings of art. Exploring the philosophical, economic, and political underpinnings of geometric abstraction in post-World War II South America, Amor highlights the overlapping inquiries of artists and critics who, working on the periphery of European and US modernism, contributed to a sophisticated conversation about the nature of the art object"--Provided by publisher.
The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting
Title | The Great Image Has No Form, Or On the Nonobject Through Painting PDF eBook |
Author | François Jullien |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0226415317 |
In premodern China, painters used imagery not to mirror the world, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering this art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this book explores the 'nonobject', a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings.
Theories of Art
Title | Theories of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Barasch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135199736 |
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Modern Theories of Art
Title | Modern Theories of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Barasch |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0814711766 |
An analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early 18th- to the mid-19th centuries. This was the period during which the intellectual foundations of our modern views on the arts was formed. Barasch traces for the reader the entire development of modernism in art and art theory. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
The Affinity of Neoconcretism
Title | The Affinity of Neoconcretism PDF eBook |
Author | Mariola V. Alvarez |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2023-03-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520388968 |
"The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the neoconcretists--a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961--formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the neoconcretists and discusses how this network collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals the way in which art and intellectual work in Brazil emerged from and within a local political and social context, and out of the transnational movements of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas"--
Theories of Art: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire
Title | Theories of Art: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Barasch |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780415926263 |
This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Non-literary Fiction
Title | Non-literary Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Gabara |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2022-12-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0226822370 |
Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas. With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures and emerge in the new mediums and practices that have revolutionized contemporary art. Each chapter details how fiction is created through visual art forms—in performance and body art, posters, mail art, found objects, and installations. For Gabara, these fictions comprise a type of art that asks viewers to collaborate in the creation of the work and helps them to withstand the brutal restrictions imposed by dominant neoliberal regimes. During repressive regimes of the 1960s and 1970s and free trade agreements of the 1990s, artists and critics consistently said no to economic privatization, political deregulation, and reactionary social logic as they rejected inherited notions of visual, literary, and political representation. Through close analyses of artworks and writings by leading figures of these two generations, including Indigenous thinkers, Gabara shows how negation allows for the creation of fiction outside textual forms of literature.