Abstract Painting. 50 Years of Accomplishment From Kandinsky to Jackson Pollock
Abstract Painting. 50 Years of Accomplishment From Kandinsky to Jackson Pollock
Dell Publishing | 1964 | ISBN: N/A | English | 194 pages | PDF | 19.3 MB
". . . there had to be a painting wholly liberated from dependence on the figure, the object—a painting which, like music, does not illustrate anything, does not tell a story and does not launch a myth. Such a painting is content to evoke the incommunicable realms of the spirit, where dream becomes thought, where the sign becomes being…"
So writes Michel Seuphor in this history of abstract art, which traces the movement from its unsure beginnings in pre-World War I years up to its most recent and extreme stages. Diverse, controversial and revolutionary, abstract art is considered by many to be a faithful image of the century which brought it into being, an image of man in search of himself, of man insistent on freedom.