Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy - Robert Hobbs

Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy

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Buch | Softcover
126 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-51142-5 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
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.

Robert Hobbs has served as associate professor at Cornell University and long-term visiting professor at Yale University; he has also held the Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.

1. Introduction

2. Robert Motherwell, Harvard, and Alfred North Whitehead

3. Motherwell’s Whitehead: The Felt Quality of Reality

4. Surrealism’s Psychic Automatism, Motherwell’s Plastic Automatism, and Whitehead’s Process

5. Motherwell’s Collage Aesthetic

6. Whitehead’s Process and Susanne K. Langer’s Symbol

7. Conclusion: Material Means, Immaterial Results

Appendix A: Metaphors as Whiteheadian Prehensive Tools

Appendix B: Intimacy and Ideology: Stéphane Mallarmé’s Materiality and Louis Althusser’s Aboutness

Appendix C: Dore Ashton: The Arabesque

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 0-367-51142-8 / 0367511428
ISBN-13 978-0-367-51142-5 / 9780367511425
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