John Adkins Richardson

Klee, Kandinsky, and the thought of their time : a critical perspective

In an original and broad-ranging study, Mark Roskill shows how social, cultural, and political events in Europe during the first forty years of the twentieth century provide a context for understanding the work of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The two artists, who knew each other well and taught together for some time, responded to philosophical ideas, literature, music, and world events by producing some of the most intriguing and at times perplexing art of their time. Roskills interpretation considers Klee and Kandinsky in relation to the artistic climate of the Munich Academy, the Bauhaus in both Weimar and Dessau, and other major cultural centers, including Paris. He examines their links with avant-garde groups and movements such as Der Blaue Reiter, Dada, Surrealism, and German Expressionism, and chronicles their struggles against Nazi censors who labeled them degenerate.

From pure visibility to virtual reality in an age of estrangement

Introduction Pure Visibility and the Emergence of Formalism Estrangement and the Nature of Modernity Estrangement and the Taste for Fragmentation The Arriere-Garde Character of the Vanguard Substance and Shadow at the Close of the Second Millennium Conclusion Bibliography Index

Seeing Berger: A Revaluation of "Ways of Seeing"

and receives more complete coverage in the conclusion, is the influence of Marx. Freud and Saussure on the structuralist tradition. These figures (at least Marx and Freud) have been dominant in French intellectual life for some time. either through appropriation or critical assessment/rejection. Again. the book deals with structuralism as French tradition. (Is that why Piaget. a Swiss. is omitted?) Although coverage is somewhat uneven. clear exposition and exceptional disciplinary range make this a significant addition to the secondary literature on structuralism and a useful text for a survey course in the area.