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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Milz, Manfred

Titel

Essay in honor of Robert Motherwell's centenary: ''temporalized form'': mediating Romanticism and American Expressionism Robert Motherwell, Henri Bergson, and the ontological origins of abstraction around 1800 1

Ist Teil von

• Journal of aesthetics & culture, 2016-01, Vol.8 (1), p.1-22

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The influence of process metaphysics on the development of abstraction between 1800 and the second half of the 20th century can best be exemplified with the case of the American Expressionist painter and theoretician Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). Taking as its starting point Motherwell's exposure to the History of Idea of Romanticism, Arthur O. Lovejoy's yearlong seminar at Harvard (1937-38), the artist's affinity with fluid forms through motion brushstrokes in Romanticist painting is analyzed as a preformative stage of his own transitory creations. This is done by structural comparison between Motherwell's written reflections and Romanticist art theory. Motherwell's specific perception through Bergson's and Whitehead's lens of immanence and multiplicity, I argue, resonates Lovejoy's principle of "Romantic Evolutionism," in its turn from being to becoming, derived from the philosophies of the Spiritualist Maine de Biran and the Idealist-Empiricist George Berkeley. 29952_UF0001.jpg Dr. Manfred Milz is currently the Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Art and Design at the Department of Architecture at Gediz University, Izmir, Turkey. Sponsored by the German Research Foundation, he was a contributor to the long-term research project Emotive Standards in Fine Arts, at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (1999-2001), within which he authored a comparative study devoted to the early sculptures of Alberto Giacometti and the first novels of Samuel Beckett (published in 2006). While teaching and researching in the Middle East, he edited in collaboration with Fatima Zahra Hassan Agha and Charles Melville the catalogue of the Contemporary Shahnama Millenium Exhibition Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today--Ancient Text and Modern Images, at the Prince's Foundation Gallery in London (2010). He also guest-edited and co-authored Bergson and European Modernism Reconsidered, a special issue of the "European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms" (2011). Dr. Milz's specialization in 20th century roots of visual culture around 1800 resulted in editing and co-authoring the volume Facing Mental Landscapes. Self-Reflections in the Mirror of Nature (2011).