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The Writing of Art

By (author) Olivier Berggruen, Designed by Cy Twombly





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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.

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Publisher | Pushkin Press
Published date | 1 Oct 2011
Language | English
Format | Paperback
Pages | 176
Dimensions | 198 x 149 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9065-4862-9
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BISAC | art / criticism

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