Mondrian’s Philosophy of Visual Rhythm

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Phenomenology, Wittgenstein, and Eastern thought, Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 23

ISBN:	9402411968
ISBN 13:	9789402411966
Autor:	Tosaki, Eiichi
Verlag:	Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang:	xxvii, 260 S., 4 s/w Illustr., 13 farbige Illustr., 260 p. 17 illus., 13 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2017
Auflage:	1/2017
Produktform:	Gebunden/Hardback
Einband:	Gebunden

This volume investigates the meaning of visual rhythm through Piet Mondrian’s unique approach to understanding rhythm in the compositional structure of painting, drawing reference from philosophy, aesthetics, and Zen culture. Its innovation lies in its reappraisal of a forgotten definition of rhythm as ’stasis‘ or ‚composition‘ which can be traced back to ancient Greek thought. This conception of rhythm, the book argues, can be demonstrated in terms of pictorial strategy, through analysis of East Asian painting and calligraphy with which Greek thought on rhythm has identifiable commonalities. The book demonstrates how these ideas about rhythm draw together various threads of intellectual development in the visual arts that cross disparate aesthetic cultural practices. As an icon of early 20th Century Modernism, Mondrian’s neoplasticism is a serious painterly and philosophical achievement. In his painting, Mondrian was deeply influenced by Theosophy, which took its influence from Eastern aesthetics; particularly East Asian and Indian thought. However, Mondrian’s approach to visual rhythm was so ideosynratic that his contribution to studies of visual rhythm is often under-recognized. This volume shows that a close inspection of Mondrian’s own writing, thinking and painting has much to tell scholars about how to understand a long forgotten aspect of visual rhythm. Rodin’s famous criticism of photography („athlete-in-motion is forever frozen“) can be applied to Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope, the Futurists‘ rendition of stroboscopic images, and Duchamp’s „Nude Descending a Staircase.“ Through a comparative study between Mondrian’s painting and these seminal works, this volume initiates a new convention for the cognition of the surface of painting as visual rhythm.

Artikelnummer: 2657696 Kategorie: Allgemeines, Lexika

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

First book-length work on a forgotten definition of rhythm as schema or composition New approach to visual rhythm, with references to Piet Mondrians theory of visual rhythm in Neoplastic painting References to Wittgensteins concept of aspect-dawning, Husserls image-object, and S. K. Langers composition

Autorenporträt

Tosaki Eiichi has a PhD in Art History and Philosophy, Melbourne University (2002) and is currently completing his second PhD in Drawing and Art Therapy at the School of Art and Design, Monash University. Eiichi is an Honorary Fellow at the Philosophy Department, Melbourne University and was a Adjunct Research Fellow at the Japanese Studies Centre Monash University. Eiichi has taught various areas including art history, design theory, aesthetics, Western and Eastern philosophy and religion, Japanese culture (including Manga & Anime) and studio art. Eiichi is also keen on applying his own method of drawing to health and medical sciences area, especially in the brain training area.