Summary
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn: Selected Writings on Art
Selected Writings on Art represents the most comprehensive published collection of essays by one of the most important living French art historians. The book was edited by art theorist Milovan Novaković, who selected 20 of the most relevant texts of this thinker, written in the period from the seventies of the last century to the present day. Along with an introductory study by the editor that points out the importance and specific position of Jean-Claude Lebensztejn in the history and theory of modern art, the selected texts on 460 pages deal with topics from artistic movements of the 20th century (Fauvism, Cubism and abstraction), through artists such as Alexandre Cozens, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Frank Stella, Jean Dubiffe, Andy Warhol, to broader phenomena or concepts such as museum space, frame, parergon, the understanding of color as makeup, sprezzatura, the philosophical-artistic concept of the sublime, the understanding of art as magic according to Denis Diderot, the lost center, plagiarism and appropriation, etc.
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