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My thesis will attempt a preliminary examination of the factors that were formative in shaping Hilma af Klint’s unique early abstract vision, especially with regard to her unorthodox use of automatic writings, séances, and spirit guides... more
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the... more
The bulk of this document is the Introduction to a book called 'What Drawing and Painting Really Mean: The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture' . The book was published by Routledge in its 'Advances in Art and Visual Studies' series on... more
This symposium, which took place at Solomon R Guggenheim on the 12th of October 2018, discussed the impact of theosophical and occult ideas upon the beginning of abstract art in the USA and Europe, with particular interest in how these... more
ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the advent of American Cubism during the interwar period. According to this study, American Cubism is no unified stylistic or aesthetic object; rather, it constitutes a variable, ever-shifting... more
1 On December 19, 1915, the Dobychina Gallery in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) opened its doors for a new exhibition. Titled Zero-Ten (stylized as 0,10), The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting, this show would be seminal for the... more
Reviews Gottlieb's development from realism to abstraction, emphasizing the influence of T.S. Eliot's poetry and of Metaphysical Painting, as well as of Picasso, Klee, and Miró. The essay offers a new interpretation of Gottlieb and... more
The paper aims to trace the development of thoughts, ideas, theories and pertaining practices from mid-19th century onwards, which led to the realization of Pure Abstraction in the works of Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Piet... more
The better quality pdf is downloadible from here: "http://www.leoalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/LEAVol19No3-Mailman.pdf Through recent artistic practices and technology of interactive systems for music, composition and... more
This speculative essay asks about the ways in which abstraction has been used as a queer strategy. Divided into ten propositions, the essay is addressed both to makers and viewers of abstract art. It aims to provide tools, prompts,... more
The relationship between math and music has long been known and analyzed. We know that a well-structured musical composition is like a well-structured mathematical formula. The mathematician and violinist James Stewart argues that... more
Le fondateur de la phénoménologie, Edmund Husserl, philosophe allemand ou plutôt germanophone originaire de la Moravie 2 , a célébré le XX e siècle naissant en publiant ses six Recherches Logiques. La deuxième était entièrement consacrée... more
Cet article a pour assise l’idée selon laquelle en revalorisant une certaine forme d’imagination, il est possible de trouver dans l’art moderne et contemporain une source et un refuge pour la spiritualité. Pour ce faire, l’auteur traite... more
Af Klint was a gifted medium, and she had contact with “spiritual forces” in her early years, foretelling—among other things—her two brushes with death after serious illnesses. Her interest in mysticism and the occult began as early as... more
This dissertation is about Andy Warhol and abstraction. It examines the origins of Warhol’s relationship with abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s, his uses and misuses of abstractionist picture making strategies in the 1960s, and the... more
Pour qui entreprend une histoire transnationale des avant-gardes picturales au XXe siècle, la période que couvre ce deuxième tome, de 1918 à 1945, est la plus périlleuse. Car l'auteur doit se colleter avec le grand récit dicté par les... more
Sobre la obra de Alejandro Obregón y de Augusto Rivera / Aproximaciones a la producción artística alusiva al contexto de violencia en Colombia hacia mediados del siglo XX / Los artistas Colombianos conciben el cuerpo y el territorio como... more
This paper analyzes the importance of the idea of rhythm as seen from the texts of the pioneers of abstract art: Survage, Kupka, Kandinsky, Mondrian
An analysis of key Minimal and Reductive works in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
This paper discusses several aspects of the “art des masses” concept that flourished in Paris during the Popular Front years (1936–1938) and the contribution of three of the most important Parisian art magazines to the establishment of a... more
The rise of the Aboriginal Australian art movement in the early 1970s ushered in an artistic revolution. But like any important revolution, it did not stop there. As the twenty-first century approached, Aboriginal artists across the... more
In the year 2015, a discovery shook the artworld. After an x-rays analysis, two other images and an inscription were found under “Black Square,” Kazimir Malevich’s iconic painting. The largest “crack” on the already cracked painting... more
The beginning of the 20th century was one where visual art underwent a major change in practice with the creation of abstract art. The canon of abstract art subsequently progressed vis-à-vis the Zeitgeist, the underlying philosophical... more
"Twisted feet, snapped heads, jarring, abrupt movements, rhythmic stomping and trembling. In the end, death by exhaustion, the staged sacrifice for the heathen sun god. Dancing – excessive, powerful, disturbing. The premiere of “Le... more
The Yggdrasil, the holy tree of Norse mythology, is central to Hilma af Klint's series of paintings from 1913/15: Tree of Knowledge. As with the Biblical Tree of Knowledge from Eden that is echoed and rejuvenated in Christ's cross, in... more
The essay introduces the concept of “proleptic existence” which denotes a psychological disposition determined by the anticipation (prolepsis) of the future. The first historical evidence for this type is found in the apocalyptic... more
This paper considers two series of paintings by a Swedish modernist artist, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944): Swan (1914-15) and Atom (1917) series. I claim that af Klint developed a diagrammatic form whose abstracted stylistics is borrowed... more
A discussion of queer formalism and the importance of attending to formal relations and their staging of social relations. Queer readings can take on form's insurgencies and capacities as a means of discussing how varied readers/viewers... more
An Art Theory essay which speaks to art’s capacity to evoke/invoke occult phenomenon, alter consciousness, and catalyze mystical experience, detailing a conceptually Postmodern approach to art theory and practice.
We make the case of wo journals established in Paris at the beginning of the 1930s, «Cercle et Carré» and «Abstraction, Création, Art non figurative», in order to trace the evolution of the European avant‐garde from its... more