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Metonymy in contemporary art :

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(hc/j : alk. paper)

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0816648786

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1876832215

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9780816648788

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b415876

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Metonymy in contemporary art :

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[Book]

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a new paradigm /

First Statement of Responsibility

Denise Green

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Minneapolis :

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University of Minnesota Press,

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c2005

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136 p. :

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ill. (some col.) ;

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25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133) and index

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Some Limitations of Clement Greenberg's Writings: Referencing Aboriginal Vision -- A Critique of Walter Benjamin from a Globalist Perspective -- The Impact of Joseph Beuys -- Away from Australia: My Aesthetic in the 1970s -- Robert Motherwell: On Mark Rothko -- The 1980s: Asia and its Influence. The Indian Experience -- An Alternative Paradigm: Developing an Aesthetic for the 1990s -- Painterly Thought and the Unconscious: Interviews with Alex Katz, Frank Stella, Dorothea Rockburne and Barry Le Va -- Seeing the Attack: 11 September 2001

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Green develops an original approach to art criticism and modes of creativity inspired by aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Indian thought. Green explores the concept of metonymic thinking as developed by the poet and linguist A.K. Famanujan and its relevance to contemporary painting and aesthetics. In Ramanujan's formulation of metonymic thinking, the human and natural worlds are intrinsically related to one another as are the transcendent and mundane. When applied to contemporary art, metonymic thinking implies that one must take into full account the inner world of the artist whose creativity is a fusion of an inner state of mind and the outer material world. Pointing out how this alternative aesthetic and cognitive mode is left wanting in art criticism, Green argues for a critical discourse and interpretive mode in contemporary art that is at once global and pluralist in perspective.

Green, Denise-- Aesthetics

Art, Modern-- 20th century-- Philosophy

Artists-- Psychology

Subjectivity in art

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Green, Denise

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20060322000000.0

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[Book]

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