Abstraction
Subtitle: paths to abstraction, 1867-1917
By: editor, Terence Maloon
Contributors: Shiff, Richard; Hoberg, Annegret; Art Gallery of New South Wales
Publisher: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781741740561
Subjects: Abstract Art; Modern Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Paths to abstraction, 1867-1917
Description: Surveying the art of 5 decades, from 1867 to 1917, this book follows the broad and diverse ways that artists and their public learnt to see and to judge works of art abstractly. It argues that abstraction arose directly from a tradition of speculation about the nature of art and of aesthetic experience.
Notes: Essays by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Richard Shiff, Annegret Hoberg and Terence Maloon.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 June-19 September 2010.

Includes bibliographic references and index.