Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the Artistic Attitude to Life

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.