INVENTING ABSTRACTION 1910-1925. How a radical idea changed Modern Art
Dickerman, Leah; with contributions by Matthew Affron, Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Ester Cox, et al.
Language: English
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012
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1st edition. A Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Folio, 376 pp., illustrated with numerous b&w and color photographs of art. Bound in pink cloth in multi-colored dust jacket. The dust jacket is now protected in a mylar sleeve.
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- Title
- INVENTING ABSTRACTION 1910-1925. How a radical idea changed Modern Art
- Author
- Dickerman, Leah; with contributions by Matthew Affron, Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Ester Cox, et al.
- Publisher
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0870708287
- ISBN 13
- 9780870708282
- Edition
- 1st edition.
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Review
Dickerman urges against defning abstraction in terms of forward progress... less interested in the invention of abstraction than abstraction as invention. The main impact of this horizontalist approach is geographic, bringing peripheral sites into focus without denying the importance of major hubs.--Daniel Marcus "Art in America "
Three quarters of a century after Alfred Barr, founding director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, mounted the landmark 1936 exhibition Cubism and Abtract Art, MoMA curator Dickerman returns to the realm with a vast exhibition and comprehensive catalogue depicting the incipient stages of abtraction in the plastic arts. Situating the movement from a representation toward abstraction as a synchronic historical moment, as well as one of modernism's principal activities, this Eurocentric organizational feat elaborates a network based on cross talk, spontaneity, and simultaneous development. The front endpapers of the catalogue offer a graphic spread that plays off Barr's legendary chart - the cover to his exhibition's catalogue - acanonical lineage of begotten isms. Dickerman's updated diagram turns reader's view to a distributed web of networks and memes in an endeavor that highlights connectivity over paternity. Even with his intended catholic aopproach, painting and the two - dimensional flattened spatial constructs of pictorial space overwhelmingly predominate. Music is accorded a seminal role; sculpture and film are underrepresented; typographic space and artists' books are thankfully recognized. A terrific collection of diverse short essays by nearly 30 scholars complement this intelligently edited, well- illustrated, and indispensable resource.--E. Baden "Choice "
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