Download or read book Uncharted Space written by Jennifer M. Jeffers and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffers (English, Cleveland State U.) provides much food for thought in this ambitious, multi-disciplinary study on the nature of abstraction. Jeffers surveys the theory of color and symbol as these occur in philosophy from Hegel and Goethe through Deleuze and Lyotard. Simultaneously, the shift to achromatic, or non-color, painting is traced. Jeffers interweaves these histories with frequent reference to literary trends, frequently citing the works of Samuel Beckett. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR