Becoming-Matisse
Between Painting and Architecture (Undoing the Image 2)
$50.15
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2019
Summary
A reevaluation of Matisse that reveals the complex function of his work and thought in contemporary art’s escape from the image, from traditional forms of art, and even from the art form itself.Accused by his contemporaries of both arid overtheorisation and a hedonistic abandon to the pleasures of color, decried for a preoccupation with the merely decorative, retrospectively consigned to a subsidiary role in an official History of Art that sees the liberation of color from iconic conventions …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781916405202 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1916405207 |
| Author: | Eric Alliez, Jean-Claude Bonne, Robin Mackay |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2019 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 248mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic / Art Editions |
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Critics Review
“The requisite productive tension between the history of art and philosophical concerns is nothing less than inspiring.”—Jae Emerling, Critical Inquiry
About The Author
Eric Alliez
Éric Alliez is a philosopher and Professor at Université Paris 8 and at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is author of Capital Times, The Signature of the World: Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy?, The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting, and Wars and Capital, with Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e)), and coeditor of The Guattari Effect, and Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (MIT Press). Jean-Claude Bonne is an art historian and Director of Studies at the É cole des Hautes É tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
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