A world for us: on the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting
Article
Neofetou, D. 2019. A world for us: on the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting. Journal of Contemporary Painting. 5 (1), pp. 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp.5.1.147_1
Type | Article |
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Title | A world for us: on the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting |
Authors | Neofetou, D. |
Abstract | In his essay on Barnett Newman in Painting as Model, ‘Perceiving Newman’, Bois accounts for the appeal of Newman’s address by positing that the artist’s work invokes ‘a world-for-us, neither the “objective” world described by mathematics or physics nor a kind of mythic space that one could [...] thematise with symbols and ideographs’. However, in this article it is contended that this ‘world-for-us’ is prefigured through the experience of decisive otherness. While Bois cites Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s early opus Phenomenoloy of Perception in ‘Perceiving Newman’, in this article Merleau-Ponty’s late writing is read via the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno to discuss how the in-itselfness of Newman’s art bindingly engages elements of experience that capitalism dismisses in favour of profit as the fundamental determinant of everyday life. |
Keywords | Barnett Newman; abstract expressionism; Theodor Adorno; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; Immanuel Kant |
Sustainable Development Goals | 4 Quality education |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Publisher | Intellect |
Journal | Journal of Contemporary Painting |
ISSN | 2052-6695 |
Electronic | 2052-6709 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Apr 2019 |
Apr 2019 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 2019 |
Deposited | 27 Feb 2025 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp.5.1.147_1 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000464014300014 |
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