Abstraction Geometry Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945 - Softcover

Auping, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914782703 ISBN 13: 9780914782704

Publisher: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1989

Synopsis

Looks at works by Albers, Kelly, Stella and Marden, and discusses their approach to art

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Familiar icons of geometric abstract art--including Josef Albers's squares within squares, Frank Stella's "seemingly demonic" black bands, Larry Poons's dotted-grid paintings and Kenneth Noland's splicing of color stripes--are reproduced in this catalogue of a traveling exhibition. Twenty-five artists are featured, among them Dorothea Rockburne, Charmion von Wiegand, Ad Reinhardt, Ilya Bolotowsky and Ellsworth Kelly. In his 81-page, wide-angled introductory essay, Auping, curator of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., charts the course of geometric abstraction, starting with the American Abstract Artists Group, founded in 1937 with an impetus from the Works Progress Administration. Current innovators shown here include Peter Halley, whose hybrid motifs sardonically comment on topics ranging from Freud to prisons, and Agnes Martin, inventor of a personal geometry created with ruler, pencil and paint.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914782703
• ISBN 13: 9780914782704
• Binding: Paperback