Robert Motherwell, abstraction, and philosophy:

"Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy grad...

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1. Verfasser: Hobbs, Robert Carleton 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Schriftenreihe:Routledge focus on art history and visual studies
Routledge focus on art history and visual studies
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Zusammenfassung:"Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book breaks new ground by considering how Robert Motherwell's abstract expressionist art is indebted to Alfred North Whitehead's highly original process metaphysics. Motherwell first encountered Whitehead and his work as a philosophy graduate student at Harvard University, and he continued to espouse Whitehead's processist theories as germane to his art throughout his life. This book examines how Whitehead's process philosophy-inspired by quantum theory and focusing on the ongoing ingenuity of dynamic forces of energy rather than traditional views of inert substances-set the stage for Motherwell's future art. This book will be of interest to scholars in twentieth-century modern art, philosophy of art and aesthetics, and art history"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 114 pages)
ISBN:9780429265082
0429265085
9780429555633
0429555636
9780429560101
0429560109
9780429564574
0429564570

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