Description: Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture) [Hardcover] Wallace, Jeff Product Overview Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in plain sight. What do we want from abstraction? Does it refer to thought, or to art? Is it a term of reproach, or of affirmation? Beyond these distinctions, Jeff Wallace’s new intellectual history of abstraction in modernism and modernity proposes that abstraction is always uniquely concerned with the importance and revaluation of the inhuman in and for the human. Wallace’s case studies range across the writings of Raymond Williams and Paul Valéry, Marx and Marxist aesthetics, the discourse on abstract visual art in Cézanne, Kandinsky, Mondrian and Newman, the literary experimentalisms of Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and Samuel Beckett, and the twenty-first-century legacies of modernist abstraction in two forms: the post-Deleuzian resurgence of interest in the philosophies of William James, Henri Bergson and A. N. Whitehead; and the act of looking at the abstract canvas in plays by Yasmina Reza, John Logan and Lee Hall. Contrary to habitual associations of abstraction’s difficulty with the exclusivity of high modernism, Wallace finds an inclusive and democratic impulse at the heart of the difficulty itself – the promise of an abstraction for all. Read more Details Publisher : Edinburgh University Press; 1st edition (April 14, 2023) Language : English Hardcover : 272 pages ISBN-10 : 1474461654 ISBN-13 : 58 Item Weight : 1.2 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #6,966,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #938 in Aesthetics (Books) #2,437 in 20th Century Literary Criticism (Books) #2,609 in Art History (Books) #938 in Aesthetics (Books) #2,437 in 20th Century Literary Criticism (Books) #2,609 in Art History (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 1474461654
ISBN10: 1474461654
ISBN13: 9781474461658
EAN: 9781474461658
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GTIN: 09781474461658
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity : Human and Inhuman
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), History / Contemporary (1945-), Modern / 20th Century, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Aesthetics, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, Psychology
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Jeff Wallace
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover