The Animal Within: Explaining the Bizarre and Ludicrous in Modern Art - Couverture rigide

Hollins, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846245044 ISBN 13 : 9781846245046

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Modern art is a hot topic. Everyone has an opinion about Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde, or Tracey Emin's unmade bed. In 'The Animal Within' Christopher Hollins unpicks the reasons why art has taken such an apparently bizarre and controversial turn in recent years. In laying out his startling new theory of modern art he shows how human intellect has marginalised the animal instinct in all art forms. This is the 'animal within', which has been pushed to the back of the modern mind, and artists are particularly attuned to respond to it.

Condemning modern trends in art as mere worthless attention-seeking is too superficial a response. Hollins shows how the roots of these apparently new ideas in fact stretch back into human pre-history. The very process of evolution has hard-wired us to make these kinds of images in an attempt to free the mind from our overbearing intellectualism. Our fascination with the shock of the new stems directly from our genetic heritage.

The Animal Within explains modern art as an attempt to look beyond our intelligence to rediscover an 'animal' sensation of objects and events we still possess in the oldest, deepest parts of our mind.

Biographie de l'auteur

Christopher John Hollins was born in Birmingham in 1946. Although he excelled at art in school he left at 15 with no formal qualifications and went to work on a factory production line. Throughout the drudgery his love of art sustained him, and he took up painting as a diversion. In 1968 he went to a retrospective exhibition of the work of Hans Hartung that opened his eyes to the ability of art to broaden our horizons. He walked out of his factory job and went to London to earn a living as an artist. After many years working in design and illustration, he became a full-time writer and painter. He now lives in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846245044
• ISBN 13: 9781846245046
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible