Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity : : Human and Inhuman / / Jeff Wallace.
Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since MarxAbstraction as the ‘missing keyword’ in Raymond WilliamsThe writing of abstraction in Marx and MarxismPaul Cézanne and Barnett Newman compared as writer-artists of abstraction New readings of abstraction and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 The missing keyword: Raymond Williams, Paul Valéry
- 2 The force of abstraction: Marx and Marxism
- 3 Abstract, ‘abstract’: modernist visual art
- Part II
- 4 ‘If it can be done why do it’: Gertrude Stein
- 5 ‘Resist the intelligence almost successfully’: Wallace Stevens
- 6 ‘The Proustian equation is never simple’: Samuel Beckett
- Part III
- 7 Writing lived abstraction: James, Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze
- 8 Staging modernist abstraction: Yasmina Reza, John Logan, Lee Hall
- Conclusion: Herbert Read and aesthetic education
- Bibliography
- Index