Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty

A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky, ...

A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andre Breton, and Albert Camus, Kojeve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Kojeve suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world.Kojeve's text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted qu Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty - Alexandre Kojeve od authora Alexandre Kojeve a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz