This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with. In so doing, a separate set of possibilities for painting g...

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1. Verfasser:	Staff, Craig G. 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge research in art history
Schlagworte:	Vattimo, Gianni > 1936-2023 Geschichte 1968-1978 Malerei Ästhetik USA
Zusammenfassung:	This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with. In so doing, a separate set of possibilities for painting gradually began to emerge. The salient debates and practices that collectively worked to establish such a response are approached through the philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s idea of pensiero debole or so-called weak thought. To this end, the proposed study both identifies and seeks to examine a type of "weak" painting which, like Vattimo’s idea, took as its critical point of departure "the exhaustion – but not the vanishing – of the project of modernism (the belief in reason, progress, history, the nation-state, etc.)." Craig Staff explores particular instances wherein artists sought to extend the parameters of the object beyond what had been called into question, namely the proclivity for modernist painting’s "strength" to be understood as denoting, amongst other things, a perceived set of universal essences.
Beschreibung:	121 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:	1032059702 9781032059709 9781032066417 1032066415