Easels of Utopia

Art's Fact Returned

John Baldacchino (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-61623-3 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1998, Easels of Utopia presents a discussion of art's duration and contingency within the avant garde's aesthetic parameters, which throughout this century have constructed, influenced, and informed our definitions of modernity. In this context the book reads Umberto Boccioni's Futurism as reminiscent of Thomist realism; proposes Caravaggism's historical relevance to the election of individuality in post-war realism; and draws the readers attention to the aesthetic implications in Carlo Carrà's metaphysical art and its reappraisal of the early Renaissance. Following a contextual analysis of the historic avant-garde in Part One, Part Two presents parallel discussions of Italian and British questions, articulated by the works of Marino Marini, Francis Bacon, Renato Guttuso and Stanley Spencer in their return to individuality within art's aesthetic construct. The author argues that this initiates a return to 'lost' beginnings where form seeks knowledge, content regains an ability to anarchize, and art recognizes its contingent condition.

Acknowledgements Modus Operandi Part I: Contexts of Quidditas 1. Name, Tragedy, Farce. The Story so Far 2. Searching in Absolute. Aquinas, Bergson, Boccioni 3. Ethical Plasticism. Boccioni, Carrà, Marinetti 4. Myth, Duration. Croce, Sorel, Bergson Part II: Utterance of Fact 5. Re-Beauty. Carrà, Duns Scotus, De Chirico 6. Caravaggist Genealogies. Caravaggio, Hegel 7. Aeneas’s Guise. Marini, Bacon 8. Rehearsals. Spencer, Guttuso Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	217 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	1-138-61623-0 / 1138616230
ISBN-13	978-1-138-61623-3 / 9781138616233
Zustand	Neuware