<p>In The Natural Order and Other Texts, Peter Shield presents the first English translations of the artist Asger Jorn's three philosophical texts - The Natural Order, Value and Economy and Luck and Chance. Offering a unique insight into an artist's attempt to make sense of a contemporary world which would accommodate his practice, these texts present an important contribution to aesthetics for modern art and an attempt at philosophical reconciliation of modern science and modern art. In 1961 Jorn resigned from the Situationist International and took the ideas of thinkers in many fields and amalgamated them into 'the first complete revision of the existing philosophical system' from the point of view of an artist. He developed a theory of artistic value and the place of the creative elite and adapted his previous ideas of extreme aesthetics to fit into this 'natural order'. Including a comprehensive introduction, Peter Shield's translations of Asger Jorn's classic texts offer invaluable new perspectives to readers crossing the boundaries of philosophy, art history and theory, and cultural studies. Peter Shield is an art historian, whose book Comparative Vandalism on these and other works by Jorn is also published by Ashgate.</p>

The Natural Order and Other Texts (Historical Urban Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Shield, Peter

Jorn, Asger

Philosophy

Routledge

Comparative Vandalism Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude to life: A study of Asger Jorn’s attempt to formulate ‘the first complete revision of the ... in the period 1961–67 (Routledge Revivals)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Combines an examination of Danish artist Asger Jorn's attempt to rewrite philosophy from the point of view of an artist, with an intellectual biography of Jorn in the early 1960s. The material follows Jorn from his break with the Situationist International in 1961 to the formulation of "triolectics," a synthesis of Peircean triads, complementarity, dialectics, etc., as an attempt to represent a "natural" thinking that would stand in opposition to artificial classical ordering. Color illustrations of 15 of Jorn's paintings are included to illustrate the connection between his writing and painting. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the Artistic Attitude to Life

History & Criticism

Scolar Pr

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