Konturen: Vol 5 (2014)

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Abstraction and Materiality in the Arts, Literature, and Music

Introduction: Abstraction and Materiality in the Arts, Literature, and Music

Calhoon, Kenneth S. (University of Oregon, 2014)
Abstraction and Empathy on the Eve of World War I

Simmons, William Sherwin (University of Oregon, 2014)

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 ...
Interval Symmetries as Divine Perfection in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron

Boss, Jack (University of Oregon, 2014)

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 ...
Twombly's Roses

Schestag, Thomas (University of Oregon, 2014)

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."
Say Good-Bye, Cy, to the Shores of Representation: Towards an Abstract Romanticism

Pyle, Forest (University of Oregon, 2014)

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 ...
Food for Vultures

Calhoon, Kenneth S. (University of Oregon, 2014)