Brushstroke and emergence
Subtitle: Courbet, impressionism, Picasso
By: James D. Herbert
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780226272016; 9780226272153
Subjects: Brushwork; Painting; Technique; Impressionism
Description: "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. 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.