Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the Artistic Attitude to Life

ISBN-13: 9781138328471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Peter Shield

Opis

First published in 1998, this volume is a study of Asger Jorn’s attempt to formulate the ‘first complete revision of the existing philosophical system’ from the standpoint of the artist in the period 1961-67.

Spis treści

Part 1. The Trinary Order of Nature. 1. ‘The First Complete Revision of the Existing Philosophical System’. 2. The Archimedean Point. 3. ‘Work Demands an Instrument, a Tool’. Part 2. The Economics, Political Geography and Aesthetics of the Artistic Attitude to Life. 4. ‘The Unique and the Ordinary’. 5. The Creative Elite. 6. The Demand for Truth and the Demand for Justice. 7. ‘Situlogy is the Transformative Morphology of the Unique’. 8. ‘Art and Political Geometry’. 9. ‘True Aesthetics is a Rare Commodity’. Part 3. The Personal Strategies. 10. ‘The European Triumvirate of Fools’. 11. La Bête Humaine. 12. ‘He Also Makes New Who Smashes the Old’.

O autorze

Peter Shield