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Full-Text Articles in Modern Art and Architecture
Program Booklet: 11th Annual James Porter Colloquium, Department Of Art
Program Booklet: 11th Annual James Porter Colloquium, Department Of Art
11th Annual James Porter Colloquium
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Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch
Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch
Visual Arts Publications
A consensus has emerged amongst art historians that portrays the work the Czech painter, František Kupka (1871-1957), as fluctuating between differing styles and never resolving itself into one straightforward and single-minded direction beyond abstraction. Visually this is true, but for Kupka the visual was secondary in that it plays a subsidiary role to the process involved in the creation of the work itself. A failure to properly understand this process has resulted in an inaccurate reading of Kupka's art, essentially missing the point that his paintings embody in their imagery the cognitive process involved in their creation. Significantly, as I …