Author: Hans Janssen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909932142
Category : Cubism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Surveying a key period in Piet Mondrian's career, this catalogue illustrates Cubism's impact on the artist's pioneering path towards total abstraction.Drawn to the cubist work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Mondrian (1872-1944) spent two years in Pa
Mondrian and Cubism
Author: Hans Janssen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909932142
Category : Cubism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Surveying a key period in Piet Mondrian's career, this catalogue illustrates Cubism's impact on the artist's pioneering path towards total abstraction.Drawn to the cubist work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Mondrian (1872-1944) spent two years in Pa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909932142
Category : Cubism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Surveying a key period in Piet Mondrian's career, this catalogue illustrates Cubism's impact on the artist's pioneering path towards total abstraction.Drawn to the cubist work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, Mondrian (1872-1944) spent two years in Pa
Mondrian
Author: Carel Blotkamp
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Piet Mondrian was one of the great pioneers of abstract art. This book looks at the relationship between his paintings and his theories on art.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Piet Mondrian was one of the great pioneers of abstract art. This book looks at the relationship between his paintings and his theories on art.
Paths to the Absolute
Author: John Golding
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the meaning of abstract painting From Mondrian's bold geometric forms to Kandinsky's use of symbols to Pollock's "dripped paintings," the richly diverse movement of abstract painting challenges anyone trying to make sense of either individual works or the phenomenon as a whole. Applying his insights as an art historian and a painter, John Golding offers a unique approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its greatest practitioners. He re-creates the journey undertaken by each painter in his move from representational art to the abstract—a journey that in most cases began with cubism but led variously to symbolism, futurism, surrealism, theosophy, anthropology, Jungian analysis, and beyond. For each artist, spiritual quest and artistic experimentation became inseparable. And despite their different techniques and philosophies, these artists shared one goal: to break a path to a new, ultimate pictorial truth. The book first explores the works and concerns of three pioneering European abstract painters—Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky—and then those of their American successors—Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still. Golding shows how each painter sought to see the world and communicate his vision in the purest or most expressive form possible. For example, Mondrian found his way into abstraction through a spiritual response to the landscape of his native Holland, Malevich through his apprehension of the human body, Kandinsky through a blend of religious mysticism and symbolism. Line and color became the focus for many of their creative endeavors. In the 1940s and 50s, the Americans raised the level of pictorial innovation, beginning most notably with Pollock and his Jung-inspired concept of action. Golding makes a powerful case that at its best and most profound, abstract painting is heavily imbued with meaning and content. Through a blend of biography, art analysis, and cultural history, Paths to the Absolute offers remarkable insights into how a sense of purpose is achieved in painting, and how abstractionism engaged with the intellectual currents of its time. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252947
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the meaning of abstract painting From Mondrian's bold geometric forms to Kandinsky's use of symbols to Pollock's "dripped paintings," the richly diverse movement of abstract painting challenges anyone trying to make sense of either individual works or the phenomenon as a whole. Applying his insights as an art historian and a painter, John Golding offers a unique approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its greatest practitioners. He re-creates the journey undertaken by each painter in his move from representational art to the abstract—a journey that in most cases began with cubism but led variously to symbolism, futurism, surrealism, theosophy, anthropology, Jungian analysis, and beyond. For each artist, spiritual quest and artistic experimentation became inseparable. And despite their different techniques and philosophies, these artists shared one goal: to break a path to a new, ultimate pictorial truth. The book first explores the works and concerns of three pioneering European abstract painters—Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky—and then those of their American successors—Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still. Golding shows how each painter sought to see the world and communicate his vision in the purest or most expressive form possible. For example, Mondrian found his way into abstraction through a spiritual response to the landscape of his native Holland, Malevich through his apprehension of the human body, Kandinsky through a blend of religious mysticism and symbolism. Line and color became the focus for many of their creative endeavors. In the 1940s and 50s, the Americans raised the level of pictorial innovation, beginning most notably with Pollock and his Jung-inspired concept of action. Golding makes a powerful case that at its best and most profound, abstract painting is heavily imbued with meaning and content. Through a blend of biography, art analysis, and cultural history, Paths to the Absolute offers remarkable insights into how a sense of purpose is achieved in painting, and how abstractionism engaged with the intellectual currents of its time. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction
Author: Charles Harrison
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300055160
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
On art in the early 20th century
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300055160
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
On art in the early 20th century
MONDRIAN UND DE STIJL.
Author: Galerie Gmurzynska-Bargera
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : De Stijl
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : De Stijl
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
Author: Leah Dickerman
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870708287
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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).
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870708287
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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).
The Impressionists and Photography
Author: Paloma Alarcó
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9788417173340
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How photography served as both source and foil for the birth of impressionism From the first announcement in 1839 of the daguerreotype process at a joint meeting of the French Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, photography found itself suspended uneasily between science and the arts, a new technology that offered previously unimaginable possibilities for pictorial representation. While photography's capacity for naturalistic reproduction threatened one traditional function of painting, the camera's artificial eye could offer new models for looking at the world. In the work of pioneering photographers such as Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Cuvelier, Nadar, Atget and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, impressionist artists such as Manet, Corot, Monet, Pissarro and Degas found new ways of seeing. The key position that photography now occupies in contemporary art has encouraged a renewed interest in photography's historical relationship to the other visual arts. The Impressionists and Photographypursues this line of research. Luxuriously produced and lavishly illustrated, this volume reexamines the lively debate that photography's emergence generated among critics and artists, and offers a critical reflection on the affinities and mutual influences between photography and painting in France in the second half of the 19th century.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9788417173340
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How photography served as both source and foil for the birth of impressionism From the first announcement in 1839 of the daguerreotype process at a joint meeting of the French Academy of Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, photography found itself suspended uneasily between science and the arts, a new technology that offered previously unimaginable possibilities for pictorial representation. While photography's capacity for naturalistic reproduction threatened one traditional function of painting, the camera's artificial eye could offer new models for looking at the world. In the work of pioneering photographers such as Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Cuvelier, Nadar, Atget and André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, impressionist artists such as Manet, Corot, Monet, Pissarro and Degas found new ways of seeing. The key position that photography now occupies in contemporary art has encouraged a renewed interest in photography's historical relationship to the other visual arts. The Impressionists and Photographypursues this line of research. Luxuriously produced and lavishly illustrated, this volume reexamines the lively debate that photography's emergence generated among critics and artists, and offers a critical reflection on the affinities and mutual influences between photography and painting in France in the second half of the 19th century.
Theories of Modern Art
Author: Herschel Browning Chipp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520014503
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520014503
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Great Works
Author: Tom Lubbock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711233904
Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here. Ranging with passionate perspicacity over 800 years of Western art, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the 50 works which most gripped his imagination.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711233904
Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here. Ranging with passionate perspicacity over 800 years of Western art, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the 50 works which most gripped his imagination.
Mondrian, the Diamond Compositions
Author: E. A. Carmean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Major exhibition devoted to Dutch painter Piet Mondrian's classic diamond compositions that helped define the De Stijl movement in twentieth-century Dutch painting. Extensive documentation includes selected bibliography and chronology, 110 pages, with numerous black and white and color plates.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Major exhibition devoted to Dutch painter Piet Mondrian's classic diamond compositions that helped define the De Stijl movement in twentieth-century Dutch painting. Extensive documentation includes selected bibliography and chronology, 110 pages, with numerous black and white and color plates.