Pictures of nothing: abstract art since Pollock
""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson P...
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| Zusammenfassung: | ""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour of a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006621-d.html |
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ART SINCE POLLOCK
KIRKVARNEDOE
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts,
2003
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Series
XXXV: 48
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
■
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
CONTENTS
Foreword
Earl
Α.
Powell
III
VII
Preface
Adam Gopnik
ix
Note to the Reader
Judy Metro
xvii
1
Why Abstract Art?
1
2
Survivals and Fresh Starts
47
3
Minimalism
91
4
After Minimalism
145
5
Satire, Irony, and Abstract Art
191
6
Abstract Art Now
239
Acknowledgmen ts
275
Index
277
Photography and Copyright Credits
287
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2003
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
■
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Earl
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Powell
III
VII
Preface
Adam Gopnik
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Note to the Reader
Judy Metro
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Why Abstract Art?
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Survivals and Fresh Starts
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Minimalism
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Abstract Art Now
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Photography and Copyright Credits
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| spelling | Varnedoe, Kirk 1946-2003 Verfasser (DE-588)124936024 aut Pictures of nothing abstract art since Pollock Kirk T. Varnedoe Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 2006 XVII, 297 S. zahlr. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts 2003 Bollingen series 35 Literaturangaben ""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour of a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006621-d.html Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1940-2005 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1950-2000 gnd rswk-swf Abstracte kunst gtt Art, Abstract United States Art, American 20th century Abstrakte Kunst (DE-588)4141146-8 gnd rswk-swf Abstrakte Malerei (DE-588)4141148-1 gnd rswk-swf USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1940-2005 (DE-588)4145395-5 Bildband gnd-content USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Abstrakte Kunst (DE-588)4141146-8 s Geschichte 1950-2000 z DE-604 Geschichte 1940-2005 z Abstrakte Malerei (DE-588)4141148-1 s The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts 2003 (DE-604)BV023553919 2003 Bollingen series 35 (DE-604)BV000006786 35 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006621.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006621-b.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006621-d.html Publisher description http://digital.bib-bvb.de/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=325490&custom_att_2=simple_viewer Rezension KUBIKAT Anreicherung application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016245069&sequence=000007&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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