Easels of Utopia: Art's Fact Returned

ISBN-13: 9781138616233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 182 str.

John Baldacchino

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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