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The Iconology of Abstraction. Non-Figurative Images and the Modern World

Although we can find non-figurative representations throughout human history it was only in modern times that abstract pictures came to the center of theoretical prominence. This shift was prompted by modern art which disrupted the principle of mimesis that was for more than two thousand years the main principle of visual representation in western culture. But, for many people images of abstract art still mean “nothing”. At the same time rather complicated technical diagrams, mathematical and weather forecast graphs, subway maps, cartographic images, medical examination images (CT, MR), visualisations of outer space, computer generated blueprints, internet based digital paraphernalia and other forms of contemporary abstraction are being recognized and comprehended without much effort. This book tries to uncover how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times.

Iconology ; abstraction ; technology ; art history ; visual studies

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