Author: Carel Blotkamp
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Piet Mondrian was one of the great pioneers of abstract art. This book looks at the relationship between his paintings and his theories on art.
Author: John Gage
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222253
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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An encyclopaedic work on color in Western art and culture from the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism.
Author: Galerie Gmurzynska-Bargera
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : De Stijl
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Eiichi Tosaki
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9402411984
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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This volume investigates the meaning of visual rhythm through Piet Mondrian’s unique approach to understanding rhythm in the compositional structure of painting, drawing reference from philosophy, aesthetics, and Zen culture. Its innovation lies in its reappraisal of a forgotten definition of rhythm as ‘stasis’ or ‘composition’ which can be traced back to ancient Greek thought. This conception of rhythm, the book argues, can be demonstrated in terms of pictorial strategy, through analysis of East Asian painting and calligraphy with which Greek thought on rhythm has identifiable commonalities. The book demonstrates how these ideas about rhythm draw together various threads of intellectual development in the visual arts that cross disparate aesthetic cultural practices. As an icon of early 20th Century Modernism, Mondrian’s neoplasticism is a serious painterly and philosophical achievement. In his painting, Mondrian was deeply influenced by Theosophy, which took its influence from Eastern aesthetics; particularly East Asian and Indian thought. However, Mondrian’s approach to visual rhythm was so idiosyncratic that his contribution to studies of visual rhythm is often under-recognized. This volume shows that a close inspection of Mondrian’s own writing, thinking and painting has much to tell scholars about how to understand a long forgotten aspect of visual rhythm. Rodin’s famous criticism of photography (“athlete-in-motion is forever frozen”) can be applied to Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope, the Futurists’ rendition of stroboscopic images, and Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase.” Through a comparative study between Mondrian’s painting and these seminal works, this volume initiates a new convention for the cognition of the surface of painting as visual rhythm. “Mondrian’s simultaneous emphasis on the static and the rhythmic is hardly fodder for a publicist. Eiichi Tosaki has taken on the challenge of elucidating Mondrian’s theories of rhythm, and particularly his conception of “static” rhythm. The result is a tour de force that will forever alter the reader’s encounter with the works of Mondrian.” Prof. Kathleen Higgins
Author: Wouter van Reek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701193
Category : Abstraction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Winner of the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Golden Apple 2011, Coppernickel Goes Mondrian is a graphically sophisticated march into modernity.
Author: Richard Padovan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113641276X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. However, this book considers them in relation to each other, observing how a study of one can illuminate the works of the others. Going beyond a superficial look at the end-products of these architects, this book examines the philosophical foundations of their work, taking as its central theme the aim of universality, as opposed to the individual and the particular. Each of these three aimed at universality, but for each this concept took on a different form. The universality of De Stijl and artists like Van Doesburg and Mondrian resembled that of the universe itself: it was boundless, going beyond the limits of the canvas and seeking to abolish the wall as the boundary between interior and exterior space. In contrast, each of Le Corbusier’s creations was a self-contained universe within a clear frame, while Mies fluctuated between these two perspectives.
Author: J.J. Drummond
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400917244
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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lbis volume was occasioned by the desire of its contributors to honor Robert Sokolowski on his sixtieth birthday. The desire first took fonn on the streets of an American metropolis when several of us, while attending a philosophy conference, were bemoaning the lack of passion for doing philosophy as we all conceived it. In this expression of our discontent we all had a common exemplar in mind, someone for whom the passion for "the truthful" and "the good" is embodied in every sentence of his rich writings. Felicitously this very thinker was someone whom we an regard as manifesting in his person and life these same properties which his writings exhibit and pursue as luminous ideals. As a result, John Brough, John Drummond, and I came up with the idea that we hold our own conference and do philosophy as we envisage it and at the same time honor its foremost exemplary practitioner whose sixtieth birthday was the following year. Immediately the idea took wings among the handful ofus and the dreariness of that philosophy congress receded. The first task of thinking of possible speakers was easy. The issue of the venue for our symposium, what I like to call the "Sokofest," had to be decided, as well as the details of its realization.
Author: Joop M. Joosten
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788881181490
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1153
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Author: J. L. Locher
Publisher: Gachnang & Springer
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Artwork by Piet Mondrian. Text by Hans Locher.
Author: Charles Harrison
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300055160
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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On art in the early 20th century
