The shape of content.
Series: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 1956-1957
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Art
Description: “Mr. Shahn sets forth his views on both the practice and the purposes of art with a clarity, cogency, and incisiveness that any professional writer might envy, and he manages to interweave with this a good deal of interesting material about his own development as an artist, as well as a running summary of his opinions on contemporary painting in general… The book is highly controversial…also highly stimulating."

A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists.