[Book review]

Author

Mathews, Patricia

Document type

Compte rendu de livre

Language

English

Source

Art bulletin. 1993, Num. 2, Vol. 75, p. 332-336

ISSN

0004-3079

Abstract (en)

Study of the connection between a rhetoric of purity and a universalizing philosophy of abstraction among avant-garde artists in the late 19th and early 20th cs., in terms of the theoretical underpinnings and political consequences of that philosophy. A frame of reference for abstraction is first delineated through examination of its roots in the art and theory of late 19th c. French Symbolist/Synthetist art, then the art and writings of Kandinsky and Mondrian are examined within that frame. The reviewer commends both the new approach to intellectual history and the compelling reading and critique of the rhetoric of pure abstraction.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Symbolist movement
• Synthetism
• France
• 1800-1900
• Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
• Kandinskij, Vasilij, 1866-1944
• Abstract art
• Philosophy
• Painting
• Avant-garde
• Modernism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Symbolisme (mouvement)
• Synthétisme
• France
• 1800-1900
• Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
• Kandinskij, Vasilij, 1866-1944
• Abstrait (art)
• Philosophie
• Peinture
• Avant-garde
• Modernisme

Review of

19940101-00337017

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00337018

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