Open AccessFood for Vultures
Author(s) -
Kenneth S. Calhoon
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
konturen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-3796
DOI - 10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3371
Subject(s) - mondrian , painting , romance , abstraction , subject (documents) , darkness , art , abstract art , art history , literature , aesthetics , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , biology , botany , library science
Beginning with a comparison of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and certain paintings of Piet Mondrian, this essay explores the inherent abstraction of Romantic precursors to those Modernist literary and painterly compositions that (continue to) place a subject squarely before an expanse (of water, of light, or of dark).