What is Abstraction? (What Isà?)

What is Abstraction? (What Isà?)

by Andrew Benjamin (Author)

Synopsis

This text addresses the question of abstraction, one of the most significant and influential schools of criticism, by looking at three interconnected projects. The first argues that developments within abstraction have rendered the traditional theoretical and philosophical understandings of abstraction inadequate. The second develops the theoretical and philosophical issues in relation to contemporary abstract work, and the third demonstrates in what way these theoretical innovations allow for the reinterpretation of the tradition of abstraction.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 69
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 17 May 1996

ISBN 10: 1854904345
ISBN 13: 9781854904348

Author Bio
Andrew Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick. He has recently completed a term as visiting professor of architecture at Columbia University, New York and his publications include Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde, The Plural Event and Object - Painting. He is Editor of the Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts.