The myth of abstraction : the hidden origins of abstract art in German literature

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781640141049 ; 1640141049
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: xiv, 295 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Kleist, Heinrich von ; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von ; Keller, Gottfried ; Abstrakte Kunst

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Rochester, New York
• (who): Camden House
• (when): 2021
• Creator: Meyertholen, Andrea

Further information

• Table of contents: Introduction : the many origins of abstract art -- Apocalypse now : Heinrich Von Kleist's sublime de-framing of Caspar David Friedrich's Der Mönch Am Meer (1810) -- The Kleistian sublime is now : Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman -- The clouding of perception : seeing the (un)real potential for abstraction in the poetry and science of Goethe's clouds (1821) -- In the service of clouds or optical illusion? : Romanticism, pointillism, and impressionism -- Driven to distraction and from abstraction : the birth and death of abstract art in Gottfried Keller's Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80) -- Inside the mind and outside the margins : the unruly lines of Paul Klee, André Masson, and Cy Twombly -- Epilogue : Laocoön and his sisters : the future of literature and art.
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