This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. In Mercure (1924), Picasso collapses the tradition of classical ballet into the visual arts; Paul Klee, in his work from the Thirties, searches for a purity of language reminiscent of German Romanticism; with his concept of the Void, Yves Klein emphasizes that, within the context of art, ritualized performance can lead to a radical loss of ego; Ed Ruscha's gunpowder drawings from the Sixties offer visual paradoxes and question the boundaries between art and language; and in Twombly's Bacchus paintings, movement becomes a metaphor for the Dionysian forces
that shape history.
- ISBN10 1906548625
- ISBN13 9781906548629
- Publish Date 31 October 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 April 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pushkin Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781906548629