| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Art History |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth-Century American Art: Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in American Modernist Painting; 1. â#x80;#x9C;Art Is as Broad as Spaceâ#x80;#x9D;: Jonsonâ#x80;#x99;s Early Years in the West and Chicago; 2. â#x80;#x9C;The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedyâ#x80;#x9D;: New Mexico and Jonsonâ#x80;#x99;s Landscape Paintings and Compositions; 3. â#x80;#x9C;These Are the Second Attack on the Abstractâ#x80;#x9D;: The Thematic, Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929â#x80;#x93;1936 |
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4. â#x80;#x9C;A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spiritâ#x80;#x9D;: Jonsonâ#x80;#x99;s First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art, and the Transcendental Painting Group5. â#x80;#x9C;Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of Colorâ#x80;#x94;Spaceâ#x80;#x94;Line and Designâ#x80;#x9D;: Absolute Painting, 1938â#x80;#x93;1950; 6. â#x80;#x9C;Causing the Surface to Come to Lifeâ#x80;#x9D;: Jonsonâ#x80;#x99;s Late Career, 1950â#x80;#x93;1978; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light and texture could convey spiritual insight. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it."--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982 fast |
| Subject |
Spiritualism in art.
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Painting, Abstract -- United States.
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Painting, Abstract
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Spiritualism in art
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315200095 |
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1315200090 |
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9781351778039 |
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135177803X |
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9781351778015 |
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1351778013 |
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