Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity
Human and Inhuman
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474461665
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 black and white illustrations 700
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Short description:
Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
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Acknowledgements
IntroductionPart I
1. The missing keyword: Raymond Williams, Paul Valéry
2. The force of abstraction: Marx and Marxism
3. Abstract, “abstract”: modernist visual artPart II
4. ‘If it can be done why do it’: Gertrude Stein
5. ‘Resist the intelligence almost successfully’: Wallace Stevens
6. ’The Proustian equation is never simple’: Samuel BeckettPart III
7. Writing lived abstraction: James, Bergson, Whitehead and Deleuze
8. Staging modernist abstraction: Yasmina Reza, John Logan, Lee HallConclusion
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