00000nmm a2200000 i 4500 UP-1685506469195170788 Buklod 20240314102332.0 t rm |||| ud cr ||||||||||| 240314p20202020xxk o d eng|d 9781501353925 (eBook) FA-170eb EBSCO International, Inc. P5,060.00 DCFA rda eng BH 301 F6 T39 2020eb Taylor, Brandon author The life of forms in art modernism, organism, vitality Brandon Taylor. London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2020 1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) illustrations (some color) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of'living'form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves. In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern art: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid. Form (Aesthetics) Art, Modern 20th century History. Art, Modern 21st century History. Electronic Resource http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2555457 Full text access requires UP Webmail login FO UPD DCFA Electronic Resource