The Resource Kandinsky - incarnating beauty, Alexandre Kojève
Kandinsky - incarnating beauty, Alexandre Kojève
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- Summary
- A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, “The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,” endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world. Kojève’s text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted question: What is beauty? Including personal letters between Kandinsky and his nephew, this book further elaborates the unique relationship between artist and philosopher. An introduction by Boris Groys contextualizes Kojève’s life and writings. --
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- eng
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- Kandinsky - incarnating beauty
- Title
- Kandinsky - incarnating beauty
- Statement of responsibility
- Alexandre Kojève
- Title variation
- Incarnating beauty
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A teacher to Jacques Lacan, André Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojève defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, “The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky,” endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojève suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world. Kojève’s text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted question: What is beauty? Including personal letters between Kandinsky and his nephew, this book further elaborates the unique relationship between artist and philosopher. An introduction by Boris Groys contextualizes Kojève’s life and writings. --
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- 1902-1968
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- Kojève, Alexandre
- Illustrations
- illustrations
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- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
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- Kandinsky, Wassily
- Aesthetics
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- Kandinsky - incarnating beauty, Alexandre Kojève
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- text
- still image
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1346946676
- Dimensions
- 18 cm.
- Extent
- 94 pages
- Isbn
- 9781644230817
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1346946676
- Label
- Kandinsky - incarnating beauty, Alexandre Kojève
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1346946676
- Dimensions
- 18 cm.
- Extent
- 94 pages
- Isbn
- 9781644230817
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1346946676
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