Destroy the Picture

Name: Destroy the Picture
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ISBN: 9780847839308

ISBN-10: 0847839303

ISBN-13: 9780847839308

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Schimmel

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The first book to take a transnational view of destruction in abstract painting of the postwar period. Painting the Void: 1949–1962 focuses on one of the most significant consequences of the rise of gestural abstraction in twentieth-century painting: artists’ literal assault on the picture plane. Responding to the social and political climate of the postwar period—especially the crisis of humanity resulting from the atomic bomb—international artists ripped, cut, burned, or affixed objects to the traditionally two-dimensional canvas. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue mark the first time that these strategies have been considered together as a coherent mode of artistic production,…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 287
Size: 9.50" wide x 13.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.532
Language: English