Modernist painting and materiality
By: Craig G. Staff
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780786447145
Subjects: Modern Painting; Modernism (Art); Philosophy; Painting
Description: "Examines the role of materiality within the context of modernist painting. The book encompasses a number of historical and artistic contexts including the Russian avant-garde, Greenberg's aesthetic positivism, the significance of gesture in Abstract Expressionism and the art criticism of Michael Fried. Strong addition to scholarship on the nature of painting in the last century"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-195)and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Antecedents; title: The Russian avant-garde; title: Aesthetic positivism; title: Gesture; title: Literalism; title: Forms of address; title: Identity.