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6: Inside the Mind and Outside the Margins: The Unruly Lines of Paul Klee, André Masson, and Cy Twombly
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction: The Many Origins of Abstract Art 1
- 1: Apocalypse Now: Heinrich Von Kleist’s Sublime Deframing of Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Mönch Am Meer (1810) 22
- 2: The Kleistian Sublime Is Now: Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman 55
- 3: The Clouding of Perception: Seeing The (Un)Real Potential for Abstraction in the Poetry and Science of Goethe’s Clouds (1821) 99
- 4: In the Service of Clouds or Optical Illusion?: Romanticism, Pointillism, and Impressionism 138
- 5: Driven to Distraction and from Abstraction: The Birth and Death of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80) 174
- 6: Inside the Mind and Outside the Margins: The Unruly Lines of Paul Klee, André Masson, and Cy Twombly 207
- Epilogue: Laocoön and His Sisters: The Future of Literature and Art 243
- Bibliography 259
- Index 285
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction: The Many Origins of Abstract Art 1
- 1: Apocalypse Now: Heinrich Von Kleist’s Sublime Deframing of Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Mönch Am Meer (1810) 22
- 2: The Kleistian Sublime Is Now: Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman 55
- 3: The Clouding of Perception: Seeing The (Un)Real Potential for Abstraction in the Poetry and Science of Goethe’s Clouds (1821) 99
- 4: In the Service of Clouds or Optical Illusion?: Romanticism, Pointillism, and Impressionism 138
- 5: Driven to Distraction and from Abstraction: The Birth and Death of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80) 174
- 6: Inside the Mind and Outside the Margins: The Unruly Lines of Paul Klee, André Masson, and Cy Twombly 207
- Epilogue: Laocoön and His Sisters: The Future of Literature and Art 243
- Bibliography 259
- Index 285