The will to unintelligibility in modern art : abstraction reconsidered

Author

Kuspit, Donald

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

New art examiner. 1989, Num. 9, Vol. 16, p. 26-29, 3 ill.

ISSN

0886-8115

Abstract (en)

Argues that unintelligibility is the desired end of modern art, and that unintelligible abstract art counteracts the falsification of the self by modern reason through reversion to the archaic condition of authenticity.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Abstraction
• Psychology
• Avant-garde
• Abstract art

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Psychologie
• Avant-garde
• Abstrait (art)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19911001-00461135

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