Robert Hobbs

Robert Motherwell, Abstraction, and Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429555633
• Artikelnr.: 59571800

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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