{"product_id":"9781906548629","title":"The Writing of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. In \u003ci\u003eMercure\u003c\/i\u003e (1924), Picasso collapses the tradition of classical ballet into the visual arts; Paul Klee, in his work from the Thirties, searches for a purity of language reminiscent of German Romanticism; with his concept of the Void, Yves Klein emphasizes that, within the context of art, ritualized performance can lead to a radical loss of ego; Ed Ruscha’s gunpowder drawings from the Sixties offer visual paradoxes and question the boundaries between art and language; and in Twombly’s Bacchus paintings, movement becomes a metaphor for the Dionysian forces that shape history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steerforth Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052376670448,"sku":"9781906548629","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906548629_p0.jpg?v=1763617070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906548629","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}