Brushstroke and Emergence : Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso - James D. Herbert

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Brushstroke and Emergence

Courbet, Impressionism, Picasso

By: James D. Herbert

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Hardcover | 20 November 2015 | Edition Number 1

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176 Pages

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23.53 x 18.84 x 1.9

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No pictorial device in nineteenth-century French painting more clearly represented the free-ranging self than the loose brushstroke. From the romantics through the impressionists and post-impressionists, the brushstroke bespoke autonomous artistic individuality and freedom from convention.

Yet the question of how much we can credit to the individual brushstroke is complicated—and in Brushstroke and Emergence, James D. Herbert uses that question as a starting point for an extended essay that draws on philosophy of mind, the science of emergence, and art history. Brushstrokes, he reminds us, are as much creatures of habit and embodied experience as they are of intent. When they gather in great numbers they take on a life of their own, out of which emerge complexity and meaning. Analyzing ten paintings by Courbet, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Seurat, and Picasso, Herbert exposes vital relationships between intention and habit, the singular and the complex. In doing so, he uncovers a space worthy of historical and aesthetic analysis between the brushstroke and the self.

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"Brushstroke and Emergence is subtle, rigorous, and original--a sustained meditation. Against the established concepts of a unitary painting and a unitary artist, each whole and unto itself and manifest in a creative act, Herbert looks for moments in paintings when some form or other bubbles up, erupting on the smooth surface of things. His idea of emergence opens up familiar pictures in new ways. This is an important book."--Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University
"A must-read. Herbert's work intersects effectively with highly contemporary concerns such as the psychology of depiction and neuroaesthetics, addresses foundational considerations in art history and criticism, and makes a significant contribution to understanding the artistic culture in question. Brushstroke and Emergence will be widely interesting to art historians, image theorists, and general readers."--Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley

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