| Description |
375 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm |
| Summary |
This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstractions first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinskys ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrians work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark 0.10 exhibition in 1915.0Exhibition: MoMA, New York, USA (23.12.2012-15.4.2013). |
| Contents |
Inventing abstraction / Leah Dickerson -- Pablo Picasso : the Cadaques experiment / Yve-Alain Bois -- Colors and games : music and abstraction, 1909-1912 / David Lang -- Vasily Kandinsky, without words / Leah Dickerman -- Mr. Kupka among verticals / Lanka Tattersall -- On the move / Hubert Damisch -- Abstraction chez Delaunay / Gordon Hughes -- Contrasts of colors, contrasts of words / Matthew Affron -- Leopold Survage's paper cinema / Jodi Hauptman -- With color / Rachael Z. DeLue -- Francis Picabia : abstraction and sincerity / Michael R. Taylor -- Fernand Léger : metallic sensations / Matthew W. Affron -- Giacomo Balla : the most luminous abstraction / Ester Coen -- Parole in Libertà / Jodi Hauptman -- Music, noise, and abstraction / Christoph Cox -- Vorticism : planetary abstraction / Matthew Gale -- Painting stripped bare / David Joselit -- Decoration and abstraction in Bloomsbury / Matthew Affron -- Against the circle / Rachael Z. DeLue -- Early Russian abstraction, as such / Masha Chlenova -- 0.10 / Masha Chlenova -- Piet Mondrian : toward the abolition of form / Yve-Alain Bois -- 3 de Stijl models / Yve-Alain Bois -- The spatial object / Maria Gough -- The language of revolution / Maria Gough -- Sense and non-sense / Hal Foster -- Danced abstraction : Rudolf von Laban / Mark Franko -- Danced abstraction : Mary Wigman / Mark Franko -- The color grid / Lanka Tattersall - - The abstract environment / Maria Gough -- Early abstraction in Poland / Jaroslaw Suchan -- White shadows : photograms around 1922 / Susan Laxton -- Rhythmus 21 and the genesis of filmic abstraction / Philippe-Alain Michaud -- The absolute film / Anton Kaes -- Concrete abstraction / Peter Galison -- Abstraction in 1936 : Barr's diagrams / Glenn D. Lowry -- Abstraction in 1936 : cubism and abstract art at the Museum of Modern Art / Leah Dickerman. |
| Note |
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 23, 2012-April 15, 2013 organized by Lean Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture." --Colophon. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Art, Abstract -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Abstract -- Exhibitions. |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Dickerman, Leah, 1964-
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Affron, Matthew, 1963-
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
9780500239025 |
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0500239029 |
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