Toward a grammar of abstraction : modernity, Wittgenstein, and the paintings of Jackson Pollock

Author(s)

• Steiner, Robert

Bibliographic Information

Toward a grammar of abstraction : modernity, Wittgenstein, and the paintings of Jackson Pollock

Robert Steiner

（Literature and philosophy）

Pennsylvania State University Press, c1992

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [79]-80)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Toward a Grammar of Abstraction takes as its point of departure three features of modern art reading: the practice of translating the visual into institutional language, the vocabulary of representation in relation to abstract art, and the prevalence of totality as a model of art-historical knowledge.

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Details

• NCID: BA20443981
• ISBN:
  • 0271008660
• LCCN: 92006984
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: University Park, Pa.
• Pages/Volumes: 80 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BH39
  • DC20 : 111/.85
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aesthetics
  • LCSH : Representation (Philosophy)
  • LCSH : Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
  • LCSH : Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1969019X