A Fable of Modern Art
Dore Ashton, "A Fable of Modern Art"
1991 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0520073010 | CHM | 1,1 mb
1991 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0520073010 | CHM | 1,1 mb
Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only within the context from which it emerged—early nineteenth-century romanticism—but also in its embodiment of various attitudes towards art. Ashton illuminates a web of associations linking Balzac to Cézanne, Rilke, Schoenberg, Kandinsky and Picasso as they struggle with the yearning to express the inexpressible, to make concrete the abstract.
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