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Many-valued aesthetics : interconnections in the work of Mary Bauermeister /

»Yes, No, Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the German artist's oeuvre - an aesthetic that Bauermeister developed using many-valued logic. Hauke Ohls brings the artist's central groups...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ohls, Hauke (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, 2024.
Series:Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 249.
Subjects:
Bauermeister, Mary, > 1934-2023 > Criticism and interpretation.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Prologue
  • 2. Aesthetics of Many-Valued Logic
  • 2.1 Needless Needles
  • The Needless Needles Light Sheet
  • Needless Needles Drawing
  • Needless Needles Lens Boxes
  • Fibonacci Networks
  • 2.2 "A Trans-Aristotelian Human Type": Many-Valued Logic according to Gotthard Günther
  • Günther's Aristotelian Axioms
  • Günther's Relationship to Hegel
  • Many-Valued Logic
  • 2.3 A Trans-Aristotelian Type of Artist: The Many-Valued Aesthetic of Needless Needles
  • Many-Valued External Being
  • An Aesthetic Concept of Many-Valuedness
  • Many-Valued Aesthetic
  • Many-Valued Aesthetics by means of the Identity of Reflection of the Object
  • 3. Combination Principle
  • 3.1 Principles of Education
  • 3.2 Facets of Abstraction
  • Dot-Structure Paintings
  • Honeycomb Pictures
  • 3.3 Musical Parameters
  • Magnet Pictures
  • Painterly Conception
  • Notationality
  • Beyond Fluxus
  • 3.4 (Many-Valued) Combinations
  • Chance and Indeterminacy
  • (Many-Valued) Combination Principle
  • 4. Material and Materiality
  • Material and Materiality
  • 4.1 A (Many-Valued) Intermateriality
  • Intermateriality
  • Howevercall as an Intermaterial Assemblage
  • 4.2 The Poetics of the Found as Material I: Light Sheets and Textiles
  • 4.3 The Poetics of the Found as Material II: Stones
  • 5. The Use of Writing in Bauermeister's Oeuvre
  • Beyond Surrealism
  • 5.1 A Topology of Notational Iconicity
  • Notational Iconicity
  • The Convergences of Writing and Drawing
  • Spatiality and Materiality
  • 5.2 Cooperative Iconicity
  • 5.3 The Epistemological Potentials of (Reflexive) Notational Iconicity
  • Notational Reflection(s)
  • Handwriting(s)
  • The Association of Scribbling
  • 6. Networking in and between Works
  • Pencil as Motif
  • Network-Like Networking
  • 6.1 Picture-to-Picture References
  • Repetitions and Their Differences
  • Square Tree Commentaries.
  • 6.2 Production Processes between Hand, Eye, and Tools
  • Tools of A's Touch
  • Easels
  • Pictionary's Checkered Pattern
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Work Processes
  • 6.3 Reflections on Titles and Frames
  • Titles
  • Frames in Connection with Titles
  • Networks and Autonomies of Title and Frame
  • 6.4 The (Many-Valued) Metalevels
  • The Checkered Pattern as Metareference
  • Meta-Image
  • 7. Epilogue.