The saints of modern art : the ascetic ideal in contemporary painting, sculpture, archietecture, music, dance, literature, and philosophy
This suite of brief and lively essays, based largely on interviews and studio visits, explores what Charles A. Riley II calls "one of the most vital (and misunderstood) creative forces in modern art, architecture, music, dance, literature, and philosophy: the pursuit of perfection." Riley examines many contemporary figures who exemplify the ascetic impulse in their work and life. These artists examined through the lens of asceticism, serve as focal points in Riley's consideration of cultural issues such as the role of spirituality in contemporary art, the interaction of Western and Asian traditions, and the relationship between the artists' lives and work
1 online resource (xv, 353 pages) : illustrations
9781611681017, 9780585256535, 9780874517651, 1611681014, 0585256535, 0874517656
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The ascetic ideal in contemporary painting. The habit of perfection : Piet Mondrian
The floating world : Joan Miró
Written in white : Mark Tobey
Pilgrimage to the sublime : Barnett Newman
A mind of winter : Jasper Johns
Instant apotheosis : Robert Mapplethorpe
The priestess of perfection : Agnes Martin
Travelling the ellipse : Robert Mangold
Sense and sensibility : Brice Marden
The prison house of abstraction : Peter Halley
Effacing the grid : Nancy Haynes
White light : Mark Milloff
Pursuing the line : Theresa Chong. Asceticism and sculpture. The solitude of objects : Alberto Giacometti
Drawing in air : David Smith
Caught in the web : Eva Hesse
An art of meditation : Isamu Noguchi
Present perfect : Donald Judd
Virtue like jade : Yu Yu Yang
The noiseless, patient sculptor : Mark di Suvero. The art of public withdrawal : Bruce Nauman. Asceticism and architecture. The prophet : Frank Lloyd Wright
The priest : Mies van der Rohe
The mandarin : I.M. Pei
Our glassy essence : a few contemporary architects. Asceticism in music and the dance. The ascetic as dandy : Claude Debussy
The voice of angels : Olivier Messiaen
Musician of silence : John Cage
Complexity and contradiction : Elliott Carter
The master craftsman : Steve Reich
The lawmaker : Philip Glass
The last puritan : Glenn Gould
Asceticism in the dance
The taskmaster : George Balanchine
Silent redemption : Doris Humphrey
The wizard of solitude : Merce Cunningham
Our lady of pain : Pina Bausch. Asceticism in literature and philosophy. The comfortable hermit : Søren Kierkegaard
Elected silence : Gerard Manley Hopkins
The poet of purity : Stéphane Mallarmé
Delicious recoil : Marcel Proust and Walter Pater
Sages in the holy fire : W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot
A world of cinders : T.E. Hulme
The sensible ascetic : William James
The habit of indifference : Samuel Beckett
Metaphysics in retreat : Martin Heidegger
Baroque of the void : Robert Musil
Corrected out of existence : Thomas Bernhard
The freedom of nothingness : Jean-Paul Sartre
Blood on snow : Simone Weil
An effaced order : Michel Foucault
The poet as pilgrim : Seamus Heaney
How perfect is it : Walter Abish
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