Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline
Hardcover
1996 · New York
by Rosenthal, Mark
New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1996. Hardcover. VG. Black cloth, black & color illus. dust jacket, 310 pp., 315 color illus.. 21 BW illus.; weighs 6.5 lbs. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition that "includes reproductions of works by the major practitioners of abstraction, including Constantin Brancusi, Hesse, Donald Judd, Kandinsky, Yves Klein, Frantisek Kipka, Richard Long, Malevich, Agnes Martin, Joan Miro, Mondrian, Jackson Pollack, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Vladimir Tatlin, and many more. ... Abstraction emerges as something more forceful and ambitious, more resilient and characteristic of the century, than has previously been recognized." (dj) Contents: Ch. 1. Into the Twentieth Century: Prelude to Abstraction -- Ch. 2. The Pioneers -- Ch. 3. Between the Wars -- Ch. 4. Recovering the Self and Other Directions -- Ch. 5. Extreme Statements -- Chronology / Ivy Barsky, Rebecca Butterfield and Denise McColgan. (Inventory #: 141297)