The rhetoric of purity : essentialist theory and the advent of abstract painting / Mark A. Cheetham.
By: Cheetham, Mark A. (Mark Arthur)
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TextSeries: Cambridge new art history and criticism: Publisher: Cambridge England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991Description: xx, 194 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 0521385466; 052147759X (pbk.)Subject(s): Painting, Abstract -- Philosophy | Purity (Philosophy)DDC classification: 750/.1 LOC classification: ND196.A2 | C4 1991XND196.A2 | C4 1991
Contents:
Out of Plato's cave : "abstraction" in late nineteenth-century France: Gauguin and the art of pure memory. Sérusier and Plato's poison -- The mechanisms of purity I: Mondrian -- The mechanisms of purity II: Kandinsky -- Purity as aesthetic ideology: Absolute autonomy. Universal exclusivity. Auhtoritarian freedom -- Postscript: Klee and the interrogation of purity.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index.
Out of Plato's cave : "abstraction" in late nineteenth-century France: Gauguin and the art of pure memory. Sérusier and Plato's poison -- The mechanisms of purity I: Mondrian -- The mechanisms of purity II: Kandinsky -- Purity as aesthetic ideology: Absolute autonomy. Universal exclusivity. Auhtoritarian freedom -- Postscript: Klee and the interrogation of purity.
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