A Weird Image of Abstraction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3869701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Javault (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 19 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique d’art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1246-8258 • E-ISSN: 2265-9404 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/critiquedart.2023 |
| OpenAlex | W1984577196 |
| Language | EN |
With his La Peinture efficace: une histoire de l’abstraction aux Etats-Unis (1910-1960), Eric de Chassey is intent upon championing a particular thesis: abstraction, in the United States, is not a style but a method permitting a communication or communion with the beholder. Drawing on the aesthetics of reception, he doesn’t shy away from quoting artists, critics and journalists, and as a rule keeps his distance from the works themselves. The introduction tosses this staggering declaration at
Abstraction · Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Declaration · Epistemology · Political science · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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