Pictures of Nothing Abstract Art since Pollock

Name: Pictures of Nothing Abstract Art since Pollock
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ISBN: 9780691126784

ISBN-10: 069112678X

ISBN-13: 9780691126784

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kirk Varnedoe, Adam Gopnik, Earl A. Powell

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Addressing the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art, this work shows that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art.

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/29/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English

Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. His most recent book is Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life, a comparison about how those men changed our nation with their history-making actions.



Foreword



Preface



Note to the Reader




Why Abstract Art?



Survivals and Fresh Starts



Minimalism



After Minimalism



Satire, Irony, and Abstract Art



Abstract Art Now


Acknowledgments


Index


Photography and Copyright Credits