Iconology of Abstraction

<p>This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. </p><p>The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings’ desire to imagine, understand and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualization, from cartography and medicine to astronomy. </p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in image studies, visual studies, art history, philosophy and aesthetics.</p> <p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><p>Should Abstract Images Have Their "own" Iconology?</p><p><em>Krešimir Purgar</em></p><p>Prolegomena</p><p>1. Why Pictures are Signs? The Semiotics of (Non)Representational Pictures</p><p><em>Winfried Noth</em></p><p>Part 1: History and Theory of Abstraction</p><p>2. The Founding of Abstraction: Wilhelm Worringer and the Avant-Garde </p><p><em>Anselm Treichler</em> </p><p>3. The Iconology of Malevich’s Suprematist Crosses </p><p><em>Marie Gaspter-Hulvat</em> </p><p>4. Literality and Non-Referentiality in the Abstraction of Objecthood </p><p><em>Blaženka Perica</em></p><p>5. Representational Abstract Pictures </p><p><em>Regina-Nino Mion</em> </p><p><strong>PART 2: Philosophy of Abstraction</strong></p><p>6. What is Abstraction in Photography? </p><p><em>Diarmuid Costello</em> </p><p>7. Abstraction and Transperceptual Space </p><p><em>Paul Crowther</em> </p><p>8. The Visualization of Temporality in the Abstract Paintings of Barnett Newman </p><p><em>Claude Cernuschi</em> </p><p>9. Rethinking Abstraction Post-Phenomenologically: Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney</p><p><em>Bruno Lessard</em> </p><p>PART 3: Redefining Abstraction—Analog vs. Digital </p><p>10. Visual Music and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde <i>Synesthaesia</i> to Digital <i>Technestaesia</i> </p><p><em>Michael Betancourt</em> </p><p>11. Ecology and Climatology in Modern Abstract Art </p><p><em>Linn Burchert</em> </p><p>12. Digital Abstraction: Interface between Electronic Media Art and Data Visualization </p><p><em>Birgit Mersmann</em> </p><p>13. Towards a Transsensorial Technology of Abstraction (Ekstraction) </p><p><em>Clemens C. Finkelstein</em> </p><p>14. Digital Landscapes of the Internet: Glitch Art, Vaporwave, Spectacular Cyberspace</p><p>Dario Vuger</p><p>PART 4: Abstraction in Science and Technology</p><p>15. The Material Site of Abstraction: Grid-based Data Visualisation in Brain Scans </p><p><em>Silvia Casini</em></p><p>16. Reference and Affect: Visual Abstraction in Computation and the Neurosciences </p><p><em>Michael Reinsborough</em> </p><p>17. Reality Effect of (Abstract) Maps in Post-Digital Era </p><p><em>Ana Peraica</em> </p><p>Coda </p><p>18. Visualizing the End of Visibility: M87* Event-Horizon Image</p><p><em>Yanai Toister</em></p>