...This chapter examines Johannes Kepler's book about the movement of Earth called Dream. It suggests that this book is inseparable from the context of an abstract space of hypotheses and that it belongs to the Keplerian enterprise of defending Copernicanism. This chapter contends...

...Frank O'Hara's poems are distinguished by their exuberance, their conversational rapidity, and their humor. His poetry was “abstract” in that it embodied action, accident, and bustle. The “foundness” of O'Hara's poems, the trace they seem to leave of their own making, their grace under self...

...This chapter examines the haggling in ancient Greece as an economic activity and as a cultural practice. It suggests that haggling highlighted the complex relations between trust in abstract systems and trust in persons. It explores the comic representations of haggling in order to understand its...

...This chapter examines whether households in ancient Greece used abstract systems to organize their economic activities. It considers the evidence for the limited use of systems of measurement and written accounts on Greek farms and suggests that Greek households relied on the so-called...

... photographs, celebrity photography, photojournalism including war photography, developments in painting including Abstract Expressionism, and philosophical writing about art and images. censorship Heidegger Martin Life magazine mythic images video games Barnum Phineas Taylor billboards James Henry...

...Passengers usually take twenty-four bumpy, dust-filled hours to ride a bus between village and urban job market. During those hours, migrants change how they talk about themselves. City-bound migrants represent themselves as the bearers of a substance: abstract labor. The chapter investigates...

... by the practice of bistunta, a kind of sale in which the buyer and the seller both agree not to calculate the product’s weight until the transaction has finished. By refusing to measure their produce—thus deferring the abstraction—farmers set limits to their engagement with the market. The chapter takes a close...

... of information across ever-expanding networks of time and space. These clerks labored on the production of the market, capitalism’s most important creation. Their paperwork produced abstract knowledge that was more essential to industrial production than the material excesses of crops and goods. These clerks...

...Chapter 2 historicizes the concept of expressionism as a central concept in Modernist painters’ understanding of authorship. The chapter looks at the mid to late 1950s, when a diverse group of American Modernists found themselves grouped into a newly formed style called “Abstract Expressionism...

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... Richard Scorsese Martin Sontag Susan Twelve Angry Men Abstract Expressionism Agee James Fassbinder Rainer Fuller Samuel Godard Jean Luc Greenberg Clement Huston John Patterson Patricia Sarris Andrew Siegel Donald Simon John Snow Michael Walsh Raoul abstract art avant garde Hudson Rock...

... knowledge. It is using this encyclopedic knowledge of literature and music that Albright beckons the reader to think about these philosophical topics not in the abstract, but in concrete terms. The foreword also shows Albright not only as collector but also as critic and fancier. These characterizations...

...Starting from an analysis of the first paragraph of the Philosophy of Right, this chapter explains Hegel's idea of a social actualization of the abstract concept of "law". It shows that the concept of the "abstract law" (and of an "abstract right") does not have an exclusively negative meaning...

... to move beyond Abstract Expressionism, was a canny student of that school and its techniques. I show that through her early education in Modernist idioms, as well as her training in rhetorical analysis, Frankenthaler pursued a mode of painting that was an explicit exploration of what her one-time...

... Barthes’s essay was first published, the history of the grid in 1960s practice is complicated by taking seriously Martin’s insistence that she was Abstract Expressionist. In doing so, this chapter offers a unique account of the grid as a mechanism by which an author’s place in the Modernist field could...

... summer of 1967,” pushing the group’s approach to Dada out of abstraction and into direct action. The chapter closes with a discussion of Black Mask’s faux-assassination of New York School poet Ken Koch at St. Marks Church. As a response to the indictment of Amiri Baraka after the Newark riots, the prank...

... they were displaced as conventional state territories, this chapter digs deeply into their imaginings of state-territories to show that these state-territories are also ambiguous, amorphous, and abstract. This chapter describes how Palestine and Syria are imagined as (1) conventional, bounded, discrete...

... of thrift premio asset chain hyperinflation social class abstract labor In the city, Suso stayed up much later than he ever had in the village. It was around midnight, the sky as thick as the black coffee he loved, and Suso seemed not to notice the time as he chatted and chatted in the darkened...

..., a racially integrated abstract art exhibition presented in a renovated movie theater in a Houston ghetto. The book looks at many black artists' desire to gain freedom from overt racial representation, as well as their efforts—and those of their advocates—to further that aim through public exhibition. Amid...

... as “allegorical fragmentation,” “arbitrariness,” and brokenness. The play experiments with ways to overcome ruination on both a highly abstract rhetorical and aesthetic plane and in the concrete postwar realm of a material world in shatters. allegory baroque style Breitinger Johann Jacob Gryphius Andreas...