1st Edition
The Iconology of Abstraction Non-figurative Images and the Modern World
Introduction
Should Abstract Images Have Their "own" Iconology?
Krešimir Purgar
Prolegomena
1. Why Pictures are Signs? The Semiotics of (Non)Representational Pictures
Winfried Noth
Part 1: History and Theory of Abstraction
2. The Founding of Abstraction: Wilhelm Worringer and the Avant-Garde
Anselm Treichler
3. The Iconology of Malevich’s Suprematist Crosses
Marie Gaspter-Hulvat
4. Literality and Non-Referentiality in the Abstraction of Objecthood
Blaženka Perica
5. Representational Abstract Pictures
Regina-Nino Mion
6. What is Abstraction in Photography?
Diarmuid Costello
PART 2: Philosophy of Abstraction
7. Abstraction and Transperceptual Space
Paul Crowther8. The Visualization of Temporality in the Abstract Paintings of Barnett Newman
Claude Cernuschi
9. Rethinking Abstraction Post-Phenomenologically: Michel Henry and Henri Maldiney
Bruno Lessard
PART 3: Redefining Abstraction—Analog vs. Digital
10. Visual Music and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde Synesthaesia to Digital Technestaesia
Michael Betancourt
11. Ecology and Climatology in Modern Abstract Art
Linn Burchert
12. Digital Abstraction: Interface between Electronic Media Art and Data Visualization
Birgit Mersmann
13. Towards a Transsensorial Technology of Abstraction (Ekstraction)
Clemens C. Finkelstein
14. Digital Landscapes of the Internet: Glitch Art, Vaporwave, Spectacular Cyberspace
Dario Vuger
PART 4: Abstraction in Science and Technology
15. The Material Site of Abstraction: Grid-based Data Visualisation in Brain Scans
Silvia Casini
16. Reference and Affect: Visual Abstraction in Computation and the Neurosciences
Michael Reinsborough
17. Reality Effect of (Abstract) Maps in Post-Digital Era
Ana Peraica
Coda
18. Visualizing the End of Visibility: M87* Event-Horizon Image
Yanai Toister
Biography
Krešimir Purgar is Associate Professor in the Academy of Arts and Culture at J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia.
