The rhetoric of purity: essentialist theory and the advent of abstract painting

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Art, Politics, and Modernism Visual Culture and Art Theory Art, Aesthetics, and Perception

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List of illustrations Introduction Acknowledgements Part I. Out of Plato's cave: 'abstraction' in late nineteenth-century France: 1. Gauguin and the art of pure memory 2. Serusier and Plato's poison Part II. The Mechanisms of Purity I: Mondrian Part III. The Mechanisms of Purity II: Kandinsky Part IV. Purity as Aesthetic Ideology: 1. Absolute autonomy 2. Universal exclusivity 3. Authoritarian freedom Postscript. Klee and the Interrogation of Purity Notes Selected bibliography Index.

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