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Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx

No one knows who fired the first shot on Lexington Green on April 19,1775 to begin the American War for Independence. His portrait is on the opening page of this work and it only gets better from there. The Author Through extensive factual research on both the American and British sides of the impending war and mixed with fictional dialogue created by the author for the characters of history, Wallace has created a truly engaging and unique historical work that any reader, whether fans of history or not, will find themselves fascinated and intrigued by as they read through the events that led up to that important day in history. Xulon Press Jeff Wallace is a two time award winning Christian author and historian. Jeff is available for classes and seminars. Autographed books and podcasts are available on his website www.libertyman.online. Books are also available at most online book sellers. Jeff has been involved in nondenominational Christian ministry for over 42 years. He has taught how to research the Bible and world history at the college level. He has been married for 36 years. Their two sons are both married and have been blessed with two children apiece.

Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in plain sight. What do we want from abstraction? Does it refer to thought, or to art? Is it a term of reproach, or of affirmation? Beyond these distinctions, Jeff Wallace's new intellectual history of abstraction in modernism and modernity proposes that abstraction is always uniquely concerned with the importance and revaluation of the inhuman in and for the human. Wallace's case studies range across the writings of Raymond Williams and Paul Valéry, Marx and Marxist aesthetics, the discourse on abstract visual art in Cézanne, Kandinsky, Mondrian and Newman, the literary experimentalisms of Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and Samuel Beckett, and the twenty-first-century legacies of modernist abstraction in two forms: the post-Deleuzian resurgence of interest in the philosophies of William James, Henri Bergson and A. N. Whitehead; and the act of looking at the abstract canvas in plays by Yasmina Reza, John Logan and Lee Hall. Contrary to habitual associations of abstraction's difficulty with the exclusivity of high modernism, Wallace finds an inclusive and democratic impulse at the heart of the difficulty itself - the promise of an abstraction for all. Jeff Wallace is Professor Emeritus at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Beginning Modernism (2011) and D. H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman (2005), and has written widely on Lawrence, on science and literature in modern and contemporary writing, and on critical posthumanism. He was a founding editor of the journal Key Words and currently co-edits the series New Literary Theory.

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