Konturen: Vol 5 (2014)

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Abstraction and Materiality in the Arts, Literature, and Music

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    Abstraction and Empathy on the Eve of World War I
    (University of Oregon, 2014) Simmons, William Sherwin
    This essay considers continuities between the impetus towards abstraction within Jugendstil and Expressionism. Both Hermann Obrist and Franz Marc sought through empathy to intuit and image abstract forces at work within the materiality of the organic and inorganic natural worlds. Their creative practice and theoretical writings share much with Wilhelm Worringer’s discussion of the “expressive abstraction” found in the Gothic style, which unified the organic with the abstract. This essay explores the trajectories of this visual and textual discourse, paying particular attention to their nexus during 1914 in Obrist’s monumental sculptures at the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne and the development of Marc’s paintings over the course of that year.
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    Food for Vultures
    (University of Oregon, 2014) Calhoon, Kenneth S.
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    Interval Symmetries as Divine Perfection in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron
    (University of Oregon, 2014) Boss, Jack
    Beginning with an analysis of certain tone-row partitions in Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, this article examines the ways in which the composer dramatized the conflict between the two Biblical brothers by setting leitmotifs in opposition, conveying the tension (between the visual and verbal portrayal of God) in terms of an abstract, symmetrical system.
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    Introduction: Abstraction and Materiality in the Arts, Literature, and Music
    (University of Oregon, 2014) Calhoon, Kenneth S.
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    Say Good-Bye, Cy, to the Shores of Representation: Towards an Abstract Romanticism
    (University of Oregon, 2014) Pyle, Forest
    This essay is concerned with the ways in which the works of Cy Twombly, especially those paintings that refer to and draw their impetus from the poetry of Shelley and Keats, elaborate an impulse towards abstraction already latent in Romanticism itself.
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    Twombly's Roses
    (University of Oregon, 2014) Schestag, Thomas
    Following a studied detour through C. G. Jung, Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, and particularly R. M. Rilke, this essay tracks the lineage along which Cy Twombly, like a child, is "drawn to paint."