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The Writing of Art Book

This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. In Mercure (1924) Picasso collapses the tradition of classical ballet into the visual arts; Paul Klee in his work from the Thirties searches for a purity of language reminiscent of German Romanticism; with his concept of the Void Yves Klein emphasizes that within the context of art ritualized performance can lead to a radical loss of ego; Ed Ruscha's gunpowder drawings from the Sixties offer visual paradoxes and question the boundaries between art and language; and in Twombly's Bacchus paintings movement becomes a metaphor for the Dionysian forces that shape history.Read More

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  • 1906548625
  • 9781906548629
  • Olivier Berggruen
  • 31 October 2011
  • Pushkin Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
  • Illustrated
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