The truth is always grey
Subtitle: a history of modernist painting
By: Frances Guerin
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781517900441; 9781517900458
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Gray; Modernism (Art); Painting; Philosophy; Psychological aspects; Gray in art
Description: "Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The color grey; title: What Is grey painting? : tracing a historical trajectory; title: Visualizing modern life : photography's influence on nineteenth-century grey painting; title: Grey abstraction : form and function in American postwar painting; title: Beyond modernist abstraction : the social significance of grey painting; title: Reinvention and perpetuation : the possibility of grey for Gerhard Richter; title: Epilogue: The irresolution of grey.