Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Many Origins of Abstract Art
- 1 Apocalypse Now: Heinrich Von Kleist’s Sublime Deframing of Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Mönch Am Meer (1810)
- 2 The Kleistian Sublime Is Now: Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman
- 3 The Clouding of Perception: Seeing The (Un)Real Potential for Abstraction in the Poetry and Science of Goethe’s Clouds (1821)
- 4 In the Service of Clouds or Optical Illusion?: Romanticism, Pointillism, and Impressionism
- 5 Driven to Distraction and from Abstraction: The Birth and Death of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80)
- 6 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
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Many Origins of Abstract Art
- 1 Apocalypse Now: Heinrich Von Kleist’s Sublime Deframing of Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Mönch Am Meer (1810)
- 2 The Kleistian Sublime Is Now: Kazimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman
- 3 The Clouding of Perception: Seeing The (Un)Real Potential for Abstraction in the Poetry and Science of Goethe’s Clouds (1821)
- 4 In the Service of Clouds or Optical Illusion?: Romanticism, Pointillism, and Impressionism
- 5 Driven to Distraction and from Abstraction: The Birth and Death of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich (1854/55, 1879/80)
- 6 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
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Myth of AbstractionThe Hidden Origins of Abstract Art in German Literature, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021