The Saints of Modern Art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and PhilosophyUPNE, 1998 - 353 Seiten This group of essays and interviews offers a wide-ranging interdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of contemporary art and thought through the lens of a trend toward asceticism that Charles A. Riley II views as "a fundamental component of the psychological and ethical dimensions of the artistic and philosophical life." The views, practices, and works of artists like Brice Marden, Peter Halley, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, composers including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Tan Dun, and writers such as Walter Abish and Seamus Heaney are intermingled with those of choreographers such as Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham, stage directors including Robert Wilson, and architects including I. M. Pei, among many others. Besides exploring the relationship between artists' life and work, Riley considers broader cultural issues such as the role of Classicism in contemporary art, the interaction of Western and Asian traditions, the rise of spirituality as a theme, and the paradox of asceticism, which implies a denial of the senses but in art involves an appeal to the senses. In the end, this suite of interrelated essays addresses in a fascinating and accessible way what Riley calls "one of the most vital (and misunderstood) creative forces in contemporary art, architecture, music, dance, literature and philosophy: the pursuit of perfection." |
Inhalt
From Gravity to Grace | 1 |
The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting | 23 |
Asceticism and Sculpture | 113 |
Asceticism and Architecture | 164 |
Asceticism in Music and the Dance | 182 |
212 | 189 |
Asceticism in Literature and Philosophy | 254 |
Thomas Bernhard | 292 |
JeanPaul Sartre | 298 |
Notes | 321 |
| 333 | |
| 341 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abish abstract aesthetic Agnes Martin architecture artists ascetic asceticism Balanchine blue Brice Marden Bruce Nauman Cage's called calligraphy canvas cetic Chinese Classical color composer composition contemporary created Cunningham Cy Twombly dance dancers Debussy dramatic drawing echo edge empty essay Eva Hesse eyes figure gallery geometry gesture Giacometti Glenn Gould gray grid Halley Heidegger Hesse ideal important Isamu Noguchi Jasper Johns John Cage light lines living look lyric Mallarmé Mangold Mapplethorpe Mark di Suvero Messiaen Minimalist Miró Miró's Modern Mondrian movement Museum Nauman Newman Noguchi opera painter paintings particularly perfection Peter Halley Philip Glass philosophical piano piece play poem poet poetry prison quartet Reich reminiscent rhythm rhythmic Robert Saint Sartre scene sculpture sense silence Simone Weil Smith solitude sound space spiritual steel structure style Suvero tion Tobey tradition vertical viewer visual wall Walter Abish Wright writing wrote York