The Writing of Art

This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. In "Mercure" (1924), Picasso collapses the tradition of classical ballet into the visual arts; Paul Klee, in his work from the Thirties, searches for a purity of language reminiscent of Germ [...]
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This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. In "Mercure" (1924), Picasso collapses the tradition of classical ballet into the visual arts; Paul Klee, in his work from the Thirties, searches for a purity of language reminiscent of German Romanticism; with his concept of the Void, Yves Klein emphasizes that, within the context of art, ritualized performance can lead to a radical loss of ego; Ed Ruscha s gunpowder drawings from the Sixties offer visual paradoxes and question the boundaries between art and language; and in Twombly s Bacchus paintings, movement becomes a metaphor for the Dionysian forces
that shape history."