Abstraction and Utopia edition by Hilton Kramer Arts Photography eBooks
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In this e-Single, art critic Hilton Kramer explains how abstract art—painting and sculpture that makes no direct, immediately discernible reference to recognizable objects—was born of an alliance between modernist aesthetics and the occult doctrines of theosophy in the second decades of the twentieth century. He locates its initial development among the Russian avant-garde, the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands, and the German Bauhaus, and explores the ideas of these pioneers, showing how they were quickly appropriated by utopian thought--which similarly rejected commonly held conceptions of "reality" in the name of a visionary ideal.
“The birth of abstract art,” writes Hilton Kramer, “has long been recognized as a fateful event in the history of art. Yet the intellectual origins of this event, which promptly established abstraction as one of the central traditions of twentieth-century painting and sculpture, have remained a vague and little-understood subject for the vast public that now takes abstract art for granted as part of the familiar scenery of modern cultural life. That the emergence of abstraction early in the second decade of the twentieth century represented for its pioneer creators a solution to a spiritual crisis; that the conception of this momentous artistic innovation entailed a categorical rejection of the materialism of modern life; and that abstraction was meant by its visionary inventors to play a role in redefining our relationship to the universe—all of this, were its implications even dimly grasped, would no doubt come as a shock to many people who now happily embrace the history of modern art as little more than a succession of styles, or art fashions, which may have something to do with the history of taste but do not have much to tell us about life”
“Abstraction and Utopia,” first appeared in The New Criterion and is now available as an e-Single through Now and Then Reader, Digital Publishers of Serious Nonfiction.
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Hilton Kramer is co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion, which he founded in 1982. He has been editor of Arts Magazine, art critic for The Nation, chief art critic for the New York Times, and art critic for the New York Observer. His books include The Triumph of Modernism, The Twilight of the Intellectuals, The Age of the Avant-Garde, and The Revenge of the Philistines. He lives in Damariscotta, Maine.
Abstraction and Utopia edition by Hilton Kramer Arts Photography eBooks
Without a doubt, only a man of such depth and knowledge could have written such an essay and not be excoriated by the art establishment. Only Hilton Kramer could make such an amusing, incisive and unique connection between 19th century mysticism and abstract art, while explaining the trends that even a novice will benefit from.Is he being satirical at times, I think so, and more to the point, how relevant do the internecine battles among the Bauhaus followers or the De Stilj movement seem today. Perhaps this work's greatest charm is its ability to focus on the grand illusion of abstract art in particular and modern art in general, that they are capable of "redefining our relationship to the universe"(see book description).
Finally, you won't be (yawn) inundated with references to the Picasso, Cezanne, Dali, Matisse etc. Mr. Kramer introduces you to a variety of mainly Russian, German, Flemish artists which shall inevitably end up as footnotes on the ash heap of art history.
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Abstraction and Utopia edition by Hilton Kramer Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
Without a doubt, only a man of such depth and knowledge could have written such an essay and not be excoriated by the art establishment. Only Hilton Kramer could make such an amusing, incisive and unique connection between 19th century mysticism and abstract art, while explaining the trends that even a novice will benefit from.
Is he being satirical at times, I think so, and more to the point, how relevant do the internecine battles among the Bauhaus followers or the De Stilj movement seem today. Perhaps this work's greatest charm is its ability to focus on the grand illusion of abstract art in particular and modern art in general, that they are capable of "redefining our relationship to the universe"(see book description).
Finally, you won't be (yawn) inundated with references to the Picasso, Cezanne, Dali, Matisse etc. Mr. Kramer introduces you to a variety of mainly Russian, German, Flemish artists which shall inevitably end up as footnotes on the ash heap of art history.
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