Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art; in contrast; either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sensemdash;the world of recognisable objects; creatures; organisms; processes; and states of affairs). Abstract art takes many different forms; but there are shared key structural features centered on two basic relations to nature. The first abstracts from nature; to give selected aspects of it a new and extremely unfamiliar appearance. The second affirms a natural creativity that issues in new; autonomous forms that are not constrained by mimetic conventions. (Such creativity is often attributed to the power of the unconscious.)The book covers three categories: classical modernism (Mondrian; Malevich; Kandinsky; Arp; early American abstraction); post-war abstraction (Pollock; Still; Newman; Smithson; Noguchi; Arte Povera; Michaux; postmodern developments); and the broader historical and philosophical scope.
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