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Painting, American --- Abstract, Art --- Art, Abstract. --- Lasker, Jonathan,

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J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917-1970) was an important figure in the history of Banff and western Canada's artistic community. Inspired by the locale, Taylor spent his career striving to depict the idea of the mountain, moving over time from traditional representations of nature to an intuitive perception of the essential elements of landscape - rock, water, and sky. Always, he sought to capture his ideas through the development of a new visual language. He applied this new vernacular to a range of studies encompassing portraiture through to other landscapes. Filled with images of his work and photographs of his life as an artist and teacher in western Canada, this book is the first to focus completely on J.B. Taylor, his importance to the western Canadian and Banff artistic communities, and his role in the transition from traditional, eastern, North American and European landscape ideals and technique to a more abstract representation and the formation of a new aesthetic of the wilderness based on the mountains of the West.

Painting, Canadian --- Abstract art --- Mountains in art. --- Taylor, John Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1900 - 1999 --- Canada.

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Art, Abstract --- Art, Modern --- Art abstrait --- Art --- History. --- Histoire --- -Art, Modern --- -Modern art --- Abstract art --- Art, Non-objective --- Non-objective art --- Modernism (Art) --- History --- -History

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Grace Crowley has been recognized as a product of European modernism and was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. Having studied in Paris in the 1920's with one of the leading art teachers, writers and theorists, André Lhote, she returned to Australia having mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry, that had become a framework for modernism. Through her teaching of these compositional techniques at the most progres...

Modernism (Art) --- Art, Abstract --- Abstract art --- Art, Non-objective --- Non-objective art --- Art, Modern --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Crowley, Grace, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of the image from what it purports to represent; abstraction as a vehicle for signification; and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological"--Page 4 of cover.

Art --- abstraction --- ornaments [object genre] --- Medieval [European] --- anno 500-1499 --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Abstract --- Symbolism in art --- Abstract art --- Art, Non-objective --- Non-objective art --- Art, Modern --- Modernism (Art) --- Medieval art --- Allegory (Art) --- Signs and symbols in art