Resisting abstraction : Robert Delaunay and vision in the face of modernism /
"Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With Resisting Abstraction, the first English-language study of Delaunay in more than thirt...
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
Publication Dates: | [2014] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract works. With Resisting Abstraction, the first English-language study of Delaunay in more than thirty years, Gordon Hughes mounts a powerful argument that Delaunay was not only one of the earliest artists to tackle abstraction, but the only artist to present his abstraction as a response to new scientific theories of vision. The colorful, optically driven canvases that Delaunay produced, Hughes shows |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | 169 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
ISBN: |
9780226159065 022615906X |
Index Number: | ND553 |
CLC: | J205.565 |
Call Number: | J205.565/H893 |
Contents: | Break (windows) -- Punch (painting) -- Movement (into abstraction). |