Title: Brushstroke and emergence
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."
Subjects: Brushwork, Painting, Technique, Impressionism, Courbet, gustave, 1819-1877, Picasso, pablo, 1881-1973, Painting, technique, Impressionism (art)
People: Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)