This volume contains essays that trace the critical issues surrounding abstract painting's contribution to modern art. These essays on abstract painting are by eleven of its most incisive critics and trace the development of such critical issues as hard-edge painting, deductive …
""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson …
""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson …