Brushstroke and Emergence
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19th century
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aesthetic analysis
art movement
artist
artists
artwork
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brushstrokes
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complexity
composition
edouard manet
embodied experience
emergence
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expression
france
french
georges pierre seurat
gustave courbet
historical
history
impressionism
impressionists
individuality
intent
intention
interpretation
meaning
oscar-claude monet
pablo ruiz picasso
painting
paul cezanne
Product details
- ISBN 9780226272016
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 19 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic individuality and freedom from convention. Yet the question of how much we can credit to the individual brushstroke is complicated-and in Brushstroke and Emergence, James D. Herbert uses that question as a starting point for an extended essay that draws on philosophy of mind, the science of emergence, and art history. Brushstrokes, he reminds us, are as much creatures of habit and embodied experience as they are of intent. When they gather in great numbers they take on a life of their own, out of which emerge complexity and meaning. Analyzing ten paintings by Courbet, Manet, Cezanne, Monet, Seurat, and Picasso, Herbert exposes vital relationships between intention and habit, the singular and the complex. In doing so, he uncovers a space worthy of historical and aesthetic analysis between the brushstroke and the self.
James D. Herbert is professor of art history and cofounder of the PhD program in visual studies at the University of California, Irvine.
