TY - BOOK ID - 555173 TI - The radical use of chance in 20th century art AU - Lejeune, Denis AU - Rodopi PY - 2012 VL - 366 SN - 9789042034396 9789401207263 9401207267 1280497157 9786613592385 9042034394 PB - Amsterdam New York Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - Art KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Chance in art. KW - Art, Modern KW - Art, Modern. KW - Modern art KW - Nieuwe Ploeg (Group of artists) KW - Affichistes (Group of artists) KW - Fluxus (Group of artists) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) KW - Zero (Group of artists) KW - 1900-1999 KW - Arts, Modern UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:555173 AB - To many, chance and art are antagonistic terms. But a number of 20th century artists have turned this notion on its head by attempting to create artworks based on randomness. Among those, three in particular articulated a well-argued and thorough theory of the radical use of chance in art: André Breton (writer), John Cage (composer) and François Morellet (visual artist). The implications of such a move away from established aesthetics are far-reaching, as much in conceptual as in practical terms, as this book hopes to make clear. Of paramount importance in this coincidentia oppositorum is the suggested possibility of a correlation between the artistic use of chance and a system of thought itself organised around chance. Indeed placing randomness at the centre of one’s art may have deeper philosophical consequences than just on the aesthetical level. ER -