Author : Michael Graham Schreyach
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Towards Pragmatic Painting by : Michael Graham Schreyach
Download or read book Towards Pragmatic Painting written by Michael Graham Schreyach and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I conclude that Pollock's drip paintings address the particular relation of individuated "subject" to "object" (viewer and painting) by activating an experience of the general relation of "organism" to "environment." In using these latter terms, I propose a new way to address the radical proposal about the body in painting that Pollock's drip works make. The large-scale drip works stripped the body of its specificity and tried to convey some fundamental condition or modality of bodily experience. I use the term "reflexive potential" to describe the primal, minimum condition of this complex transaction. Reflexive potential is the condition of possibility which an organism and an environment initially emerge as distinct from one another, leading to the distinctions of inside and outside, or subject and object, which characterize all later interactions. I contend that Pollock's pragmatic paintings exemplify the original conditions of an organism on the verge of purposive behavior in an environment.