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Author Green, Denise.

Title Metonymy in contemporary art : a new paradigm / Denise Green
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; chapter 1 Some Limitations of Clement Greenberg's Writings: Referencing Aboriginal Vision; chapter 2 A Critique of Walter Benjamin from a Globalist Perspective; chapter 3 The Impact of Joseph Beuys; chapter 4 Away from Australia: My Aesthetic in the 1970s; chapter 5 Robert Motherwell: On Mark Rothko; chapter 6 The 1980s: Asia and its Influence. The Indian Experience; chapter 7 An Alternative Paradigm: Developing an Aesthetic for the 1990s
Summary Denise Green develops an original approach to art criticism and modes of creativity inspired by aspects of Australian Aboriginal and Indian thought. Interweaving her own evolution as an artist with critiques of Clement Greenberg and Walter Benjamin as well as commentary on artists such as Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, Green explores the concept of metonymic thinking and its relevance to contemporary painting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 133) and index
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Subject Green, Denise -- Aesthetics
SUBJECT Green, Denise fast
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy
Artists -- Psychology.
Subjectivity in art.
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Aesthetics
Art, Modern -- Philosophy
Artists -- Psychology
Subjectivity in art
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005050607
ISBN 9780816698783
0816698783
9780816648788
0816648786
1876832215
9781876832216