Abstract art in the late twentieth century
By: edited by Frances Colpitt
Contributors: Colpitt, Frances
Series: Contemporary artists and their critics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Art, Abstract
Description: 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 and serial structure, monochrome abstraction, the psychological analogy, regionalism, and the "death of painting" in Postmodernism. The introduction and commentary situates the essays historically and examines their philosophical sources and influences, from formalism and phenomenology to structuralism and poststructuralism. What emerges is an optimistic picture of abstract painting -- and according to the author, the definitive contribution of modern art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Four abstract classicists / Jules Langsner; title: Literalism and abstraction: Frank Stella's retrospective at the modern / Philip Leider; title: Serial imagery / John Coplans; title: The silent art / Lucy R. Lippard; title: After the ultimate / Grégoire Müller; title: Marden, Novros, Rothko: painting in the age of actuality / Sheldon Nodelman; title: The end of painting / Douglas Crimp; title: Signs taken for wonders / Hal Foster; title: The current state of nonrepresentation / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; title: The abstract self-object / Donald Kuspit; title: Once removed from what? / David Pagel; title: Systems of opinion: abstract painting since 1959 / Frances Colpitt