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02508aam a2200397 i 4500 001 67677BB8E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210721010052 008 190801t20202020enkaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1501356011 020 $a 9781501356018 020 $a 1501353918 020 $a 9781501353918 035 $a (OCoLC)1122871024 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YDXIT $d OCL $d OCLCO $d DGW $d NZAUC $d DPL $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a N6490 $b .T392 2020 082 04 $a 709.04 $2 23 100 1 $a Taylor, Brandon, $e author. 245 14 $a The life of forms in art : $b modernism, organism, vitality / $c Brandon Taylor. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Visual Arts, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 253 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a What is form in modern art? How could a work of art attain organic life in a world dominated by new technology? In this important new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied the analogies and metaphors by which the modern artist was guided. For the artistic giants of the period -- Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dali, Arp, Motherwell, and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni, and Kobro -- such questions loomed large in the studio, in 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 great experiments of modern art: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prelude: on life and form -- Organicity -- Biomorphism -- Ambiguity -- Monstrosity -- Dialetics -- Liquefaction -- Coda. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 20th century $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a Form (Aesthetics) 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 20th century $x History. 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 21st century $x History. 650 7 $a Art, Modern $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816663 650 7 $a Art, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816615 650 7 $a Form (Aesthetics) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00932887 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020858.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=67677BB8E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search