The Rhetoric of Purity : Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge New Art History and Criticism
ISBN-10
0521385466
ISBN-13
9780521385466
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cambridge Univ Pr
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 1st, 1991
Weight
81 grams
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Painting & paintings
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Mark Cheetham examines the resurgence of Neo-Platonist philosophy in France during the late nineteenth century and its critical role in the formation of the first wave of abstract painting at that time. Through analysis of the writings and art of Gauguin, Serusier, Mondrian, and Kandinsky, among others, he concludes that for these artists, purity was nothing less than the quality that painting must possess. Cheetham argues that the rhetoric of purity was originally inaugurated by Plato's vision of a perfect, non-mimetic art, and that the founders of abstraction were responding to Plato through their new formal means of expression.
Mark Cheetham examines the resurgence of Neo-Platonist philosophy in France during the late nineteenth century and its critical role in the formation of the first wave of abstract painting at that time. Through analysis of the writings and art of Gauguin, Serusier, Mondrian, and Kandinsky, among others, he concludes that for these artists, purity was nothing less than the quality that painting must possess. Cheetham argues that the rhetoric of purity was originally inaugurated by Plato''s vision of a perfect, non-mimetic art, and that the founders of abstraction were responding to Plato through their new formal means of expression.
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