Code: 04558889

Spirals

Name: Spirals
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 04558889
Price: 134.65 EUR
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Author: Nico Israel
ISBN: 9780231153027

by Nico Israel

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Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2015
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In this elegantly written, intellectually daring study, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of some of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists -- including W. B. Yeats and Vladimir Tatlin, James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett and Robert Smithson -- he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for understanding the mutual involvement of modernity, history, and geopolitics, complicating the spatio-temporal logic of literary and artistic genres and academic disciplines. The book takes the spiral not only as its topic but as its method. Drawing on the writings of Walter Benjamin and Alain Badiou, Israel theorizes a way of reading spirals spirally, responding to their dual-directionality as well as their affective dimensionality. The sensations associated with spirals----flying, falling, drowning, being smothered -- reflect the anxieties of limits tested or breached, and Israel charts these limits as they widen from the local to the global and recoil back. Chapters explore 'pataphysics, futurism, vorticism, Dada-surrealism, concentrism, minimalism, and entropic earth art. A coda pairs novelist W. G. Sebald and contemporary artist William Kentridge. In Spirals, Israel offers a refreshingly original approach to the history of modernism and its aftermaths, one that gives modernist studies, comparative literature, and art criticism an important new spin.