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Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925

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ISBN-10: 0870708287

ISBN-13: 9780870708282

Edition: 2012

Authors: Leah Dickerman, Matthew Affron, Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Hal Foster

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In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork. It traces the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. This richly illustrated publication covers a wide range of artistic production--including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, film, photography, sound…    
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Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Publication date: 1/31/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 9.80" wide x 12.30" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 5.720
Language: English

Yve-Alain Bois is professor of the history of art at Harvard University.

Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, and the author of many books, including "The Return of the Real", "Design and Crime", "Prosthetic Gods", and "The Art-Architecture Complex". A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2010 recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing and the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism.