Abstract Art

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Mondriaan en De Stijl, nieuwe permanente tentoonstelling

by Tessel Bauduin

Bauduin, T.M. ‘Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Mondriaan en De Stijl, nieuwe permanente tentoonstelling’. [exh.rev.] De Witte Raaf  26, 155 (2012): “Ondertussen” 8.

Soon also on dewitteraaf.be Soon also on dewitteraaf.be

Modern Art Revisited: A Fascination for the Occult. Review of the exhibition L’Europe des esprits ou la fascination de l’occulte, 1750-1950.

by Tessel Bauduin

Bauduin, T.M. ‘Modern Art Revisited: A Fascination for the Occult’. [exh.rev.] all-over Magazin 2 (March 2012): 44-51.

Aristotelian Aisthesis and the Violence of Suprematism

by Ryan Drake

Epoché (forthcoming)

Kazimir Malevich's style of Suprematist painting represents the inauguration of nothing less
than a new form of... more Kazimir Malevich's style of Suprematist painting represents the inauguration of nothing less
than a new form of culture premised upon a demolition of the Western tradition's reifying habits of
objective thought.  In ridding his canvases of all objects and mimetic conventions, Malevich sought to
reconfigure human perception in such a way as to open consciousness to alternative modes of
organization and signification.  In this paper I argue that Malevich's revolutionary aesthetic strategy can
be illuminated by a return to the very basis of this tradition, namely by a reconsideration of Aristotle's
account in De Anima III.2 of the initial possibility of objective perception as such.

Colour, Shape, and Music: The Presence of Thought Forms in Abstract Art

by Zoe Alderton

Art visuel, imagination et spiritualité. Pour une topographie spirituelle guidée par l’imagination

by Daniel Proulx

Publié dans Théologique, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 144-162

Résumé
Cet article a pour assise l’idée selon laquelle en revalorisant une certaine forme d’imagination, il est... more Résumé
Cet article a pour assise l’idée selon laquelle en revalorisant une certaine forme d’imagination, il est possible de trouver dans l’art moderne et contemporain une source et un refuge pour la spiritualité. Pour ce faire, l’auteur traite de l’autonomisation séculière de l’art au xxe siècle, une sécularisation qui en apparence s’oppose à l’art proprement religieux, mais qui dans ce mouvement de séparation repense et transforme son rapport au religieux et au spirituel, moins qu’il ne l’efface. Il situe ensuite la profondeur d’horizon ouvert par la notion d’imagination et d’imaginal, ce qui permet d’introduire l’idée du mundus imaginalis. Enfin, il rapproche l’art abstrait et l’imaginal pour montrer que l’univers auquel ces deux forces rendent attentif semble mener précisément à un monde qui leur est commun : le monde imaginal.

Abstract

This paper’s contention is that through the revaluation of a particular form of imagination, it is possible to find in modern and contemporary art a source and a refuge for spirituality. To do so, this paper studies the secularisation of art through the 20th century, a secularisation that appears to stand against religious art, but which, in this opposition, re-thinks and re-shapes its relationship to the religious and the spiritual, much more so than it erases it. The depth that the notion of imagination and imaginal creates is then presented, which allows the introduction of mundus imaginalis. Last of all, this paper compares abstract art and imaginal to show that the universe
toward which these two forces draw our attention leads precisely to their
common link: the imaginal world.

DISLOCATIONS: The Artlessness of Anthropology

by Louise Krasniewicz

co-written with Michael Blitz, although he probably doesn't remember...

The 1991 MOMA exhibit, DISLOCATIONS, inspired some connections between art and anthropology. The 1991 MOMA exhibit, DISLOCATIONS, inspired some connections between art and anthropology.

John Chamberlain's Pliability: The New Monumental Aluminium Works

by David Getsy

_Burlington Magazine_ vol. 153, no. 1304 (November 2011): 738-44.

Late in his career, John Chamberlain created a series of over-life-size works in aluminum. This article provides a... more Late in his career, John Chamberlain created a series of over-life-size works in aluminum. This article provides a general overview of this body of work and connects it to themes that are central to his earlier concerns. It offers the first published in-depth discussion of this series of works.

El resumen documental

by Julio Alonso Arévalo

Alonso-Arévalo, J. El resumen documental, 2004.

Los resúmenes documentales forman parte de la vida científica y tienen una importancia fundamental en la comunicación... more Los resúmenes documentales forman parte de la vida científica y tienen una importancia fundamental en la comunicación y transmisión de la información, especialmente en el área de la ciencia y la tecnología. El resumen forma parte de la cadena documental. Se trata de un punto de partida de las operaciones documentales en virtud de su capacidad de respuesta a las necesidades informativas y comunicativas de los investigadores. Es un proceso de identificación y representación del contenido del documento

Burri and Heidegger: Beyond the Subjective Artist

by Marco Motta

Despite its being highly priced and appreciated in contemporary art-markets, the work of Alberto Burri remains largely... more Despite its being highly priced and appreciated in contemporary art-markets, the work of Alberto Burri remains largely ignored by academics. This paper will propose an analysis of three of the most important of Burri’s Series, the Hessian Bags, the Plastics and the Cretti, in the light of Immanuel Kant’s and Martin Heidegger’s theories of aesthetics. This analysis will show that Burri’s work is essentially informed by a reflection on, and reaction to, the still dominant understanding of the artist as a subjective genius. The roots of Burri’s reflection can be found in both Kant’s third Critique in which the beautiful is defined in terms of a purposiveness without purpose, and in Heidegger’s essay The Origin of the Work of Art where the art-work is understood in terms of the confluence between the transcendent and the real, or in Heidegger’s words, earth and world. This confluence is, according to Heidegger, the revealing-concealing event of truth.The role of the artist is thus dramatically reshaped: she becomes the medium, the p(r)o-(ph)et through which transcendent forces can express themselves in reality, only to conceal themselves in the reality they create. This is evident in Burri’s work: he does not ‘create’ in order to accomplish a given a purpose, indeed Burri’s works constitute an explicit statement that, if the work of art has a purpose, that purpose is never driven by the artist and always and necessarily transcends the artist herself.

A Space of Encounter: On the Paintings of Robert Holyhead

by Anna Lovatt

Published in Globus, Doro ed., 'Robert Holyhead: New Paintings,' Karsten Schubert Gallery, 2009

An experimental study of social tagging behavior and image content

by Beth Emmerling

Authors:    Jennifer Golbeck, Jes Koepfler, Beth Emmerling

Article first published online: 27 MAY 2011

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technoloy

Social tags have become an important tool for improving access to online resources, particularly non-text media. With... more Social tags have become an important tool for improving access to online resources, particularly non-text media. With the dramatic growth of user-generated content, the importance of tags is likely to grow. However, while tagging behavior is well studied, the relationship between tagging behavior and features of the media being tagged is not well understood. In this paper, we examine the relationship between tagging behavior and image type. Through a lab-based study with 51 subjects and an analysis of an online dataset of image tags, we show that there are significant differences in the number, order, and type of tags that users assign based on their past experience with an image, the type of image being tagged, and other image features. We present these results and discuss the significant implications this work has for tag-based search algorithms, tag recommendation systems, and other interface issues.

Sublimity, beauty and decorum.

by Luke White

Essay published in the catalogue for the exhibition Richmond Burton and Maisie Kendall: Decorum, shown at the Royal Academy Schools Gallery, London, 2007. Catalogue edited by Michael Petry and Published by the Royal Academy Schools Gallery in conjuntion with MOCA London.

This catalogue essay examines the work of two contemporary abstract painters, Maisie Kendall and Richmond Burton, who... more This catalogue essay examines the work of two contemporary abstract painters, Maisie Kendall and Richmond Burton, who were showing together at the Royal Academy Schools Gallery in London, in Autumn 2007. It traces the fate of the "decorative" in modern art, and relates this term to Neoclassical attitudes to decorum. Tracing the turn away from decorum as a validating term in art, with the rise of the related (and gendered) notions of the sublime and the beautiful (with the privileging of the former over the latter), the essay argues that now in work such as Kendall's and Burton's the sensual pleasure of beauty - a kind of indecorous decorum, or a decorous indecorum - serves as a deliberately transgressive and even troubling element.

Verbális metakommunikáció - Mitől releváns egy metaforikus leképezés?

by Bálint Forgács

Reform der Lebenswelt - Strukturelle Erziehung durch Kunst bei Piet Mondrian, in: Ralf Koerrenz (Hrsg.): Pädagogik zwischen Tradition und Innovation, Jena 2010, pp.93-115.

by Karsten Kenklies

ontology

by gpdimonderose giacinthom p. rosen

Os limites do semi-simbolismo na arte abstrata

by Camila Ribeiro

At first excluded in the semiotics studies, the expression of a text is
explored by the concept of... more At first excluded in the semiotics studies, the expression of a text is
explored by the concept of semi-symbolism. However, not all the effects of meaning
derived from this plane can be described using the semi-symbolic analysis. Our work
explores this limitations in the study of abstract art.

Jackson Pollock Sketchbook 3: Homage to the Old Masters

by Natalie Maria Roncone

By Natalie Maria Roncone plublished in the Burlington magazine Jan 2010

Immoderate Couplings: Transformations and Genders in John Chamberlain's Work

by David Getsy

in D. Tompkins, ed., _It's All in the Fit: The Work of John Chamberlain_ (Marfa, Texas: The Chinati Foundation, 2009), 166-211

By tracking John Chamberlain’s tactics of coupling, conjunction, and parataxis in his artistic practice and in his... more By tracking John Chamberlain’s tactics of coupling, conjunction, and parataxis in his artistic practice and in his statements about it, I argue that he offers an articulation, in spite of his intentions, of genders as successive, temporal, and transformable. Specifically, I discuss his recurring analogy —  that of sexual activity — for his otherwise non-figural works made from crushed automobiles.  I follow the implications of this overlapping of bodily metaphor onto his non-mimetic sculptures.  Drawing on transgender theory, I argue that gender is located in the works not as simple iconography but rather manifests as the result of material transformations and recombinations in the processes of conceptualization and realization of the art works.  This method allows for a richer articulation of Chamberlain's conceptual and artistic practices while also extrapolating from them a case for the transgender capacity of abstract art.

This essay is a chapter of a book-in-progress preliminarily titled _Abstract Bodies and Postwar Sculpture, 1964-75_.