Toward abstraction
Subtitle: ranking European painters of the early twentieth century
By: David W. Galenson.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11501; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11501.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Art, Abstract -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Paris was the undisputed capital of modern art in the nineteenth century, but during the earlytwentieth century major innovations began to occur elsewhere in Europe.  This paper examines thecareers of the artists who led such movements as Italian Futurism, German Expressionism, Holland'sDe Stijl, and Russia's Suprematism.  Quantitative analysis reveals the conceptual basis of the art ofUmberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Kazimir Malevich, and Edvard Munch, and the experimentalbasis of the innovations of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian.  That the invention ofabstract art was made nearly simultaneously by the conceptual Malevich and the experimentalKandinsky and Mondrian emphasizes the importance of both deductive and inductive approachesin the history of modern art"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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