Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-283) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the many origins of abstract art -- Apocalypse now : Heinrich Von Kleist's sublime de-framing of Caspar David Friedrich's Der Mönch Am Meer (1810) -- The Kleistian sublime is now : Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman -- The clouding of perception : seeing the (un)real potential for abstraction in the poetry and science of Goethe's clouds (1821) -- In the service of clouds or optical illusion? : Romanticism, pointillism, and impressionism -- Driven to distraction and from abstraction : the birth and death of abstract art in Gottfried Keller's Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80) -- Inside the mind and outside the margins : the unruly lines of Paul Klee, André Masson, and Cy Twombly -- Epilogue : Laocoön and his sisters : the future of literature and art.
Series:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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