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Abstract art / Anna Moszynska

Moszynska, Anna, (author).

Summary:

"Moszynska examines the pioneering work of Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian alongside the Russian Constructivists, the De Stijl group, and the Bauhaus artists, contrasting European geometric abstraction in the 1930s and '40s with the emphasis on personal expression after World War II. Op, kinetic, and minimal art of the postwar period is discussed and illustrated in detail, and new chapters bring the account up to date, exploring the crisis in abstraction of the 1980s and its revival -- in paint, fabric, sculpture, and installation -- in recent decades."--Publisher description

Record details

ISBN: 0500204454
ISBN: 9780500204450
Physical Description: 271 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: New edition
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index

Formatted Contents Note:

Observing the world : paths to abstraction, 1910-14 -- Looking inwards : investigations, 1912-20 -- Social ideals : constructing the future, 1920-39 -- Abstractions in Europe : 1939-56 -- Focus on expression : USA, 1939-56 -- Objective approaches : abstract art, 1956-78 -- Crises in abstraction : 1979-89 -- Extending the canon : diffusions of identity and place since 1990 -- Abstraction in the expanded field : the twenty-first century