Abstraction - Toward a New Art: Painting, 1910-20
Description
Abstract art is now about seventy years old. It is one of the developments in art that will always be seen as a creation of the twentieth ccdntury. In the past, various writers in tracing the historical origins of the abstract movement, have described the works of the principal artists in terms of 'influence' and 'style' without considering the single important fact that abstraction is not a 'style' but what Delaunay called a 'change of understanding'. No stylistic definition, however broad, can encompass the work of painters as diverse as Kandinsky...
ISBN(s)
0905005120, 9780905005126
