Screen LibraryMondrian's Philosophy of Visual Rhythm : Phenomenology, Wittgenstein, and Eastern thought /
This volume investigates the meaning of visual rhythm through Piet Mondrian s unique approach to understanding rhythm in the compositional structure of painting, drawing reference from philosophy, aesthetics, and Zen culture. Its innovation lies in its reappraisal of a forgotten definition of rhythm...
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Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1198-0 |
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This volume investigates the meaning of visual rhythm through Piet Mondrian s unique approach to understanding rhythm in the compositional structure of painting, drawing reference from philosophy, aesthetics, and Zen culture. Its innovation lies in its reappraisal of a forgotten definition of rhythm as stasis or composition which can be traced back to ancient Greek thought. This conception of rhythm, the book argues, can be demonstrated in terms of pictorial strategy, through analysis of East Asian painting and calligraphy with which Greek thought on rhythm has identifiable commonalities. Th |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XXVII,260pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9789402411980 |
| Index Number: | BH1 |
| CLC: | J0-02 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Concepts of Rhythm in Music, Philosophy and Painting -- Rhythm in Mondrian s Early Theory of Painting -- Dynamic Rhythm and Static Rhythm: the Polemics of Mondrian s Theory of Rhythm -- Mondrian s Rhythm and Contemporary Music -- Phenomenology of Surface: Husserl s image-object analysis -- A Cognitive Approach to Painting Surface and Rhythm -- Conclusion. |