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Art Line Thought

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Samuel B. Mallin

    1. York University, Toronto, Canada

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH, volume 21)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Prehistoric

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-12
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    2. Sculptural Archaic Thought

      1. Thinking of the Future Archaically: In The Shape of a Peplos
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 13-47
      2. Drawing Out Prehistory: Sculptural Archaic Thought
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 49-80
      3. Appendix Of Quotations
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 81-120

    3. The Minoan and the Philosophical

      1. Swirling Beyond Our Time: Along Minoan and Nazcan Lines
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 133-155
      2. The Minoan Midst: Ceramic Swirling Thought
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 157-226
      3. Introductions
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 227-298

  3. The Contemporary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-312
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    2. The Regular and the Sinuous

      1. Thinking the Line Through Serra’s Sculpture
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 313-413
      2. The Line of Performance: Pina Bausch’s Dance-Theatre
        • Samuel B. Mallin
        Pages 415-432

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 433-498
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About this book

Art Line Thought discusses the main issues that beset our time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what is shown there. While respecting their differences, art and philosophy are thus made to cross back and forth into one another, delineating in fresh ways our concerns about nature, the human and non-human, the body, femininity, ecology, technology, textism, the end of history, community, postmodernism, relativism and non-Eurocentric ethics. A `philosophy of line' gathers these issues, opposing the current dominance of `word' and linguistic analyses. Art has long been aware that the line communicates meaning at least as well as the word. The volume is divided between contemporary and prehistoric art in order to reveal the presumptions of `Western' culture and how we might move beyond it. Since the book is a critique of Eurocentric thinking and prose, it works at finding new styles of both.
Its philosophical meditation is directed equally to those who are intellectually interested in contemporary and prehistoric art, in theories of postmodern culture and criticism, and in anthropology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • York University, Toronto, Canada

    Samuel B. Mallin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art Line Thought

  • Authors: Samuel B. Mallin

  • Series Title: Contributions to Phenomenology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1594-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3774-4Published: 30 November 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7214-4Published: 20 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1594-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0923-9545

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1915

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 498

  • Topics: Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Arts, Classical Studies

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