| Description |
viii, 342 pages : illustrations (part color), portraits ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Have there been abstract forms in the past? -- Abstract art and aesthetics -- Abstract art as a phenomenon -- Abstract art and the subconcious -- Abstraction and the renewal of the techniques of paitning -- The margin of abstract art -- Dada and abstraction -- i. The origins of abstract art and its expansion -- Vassily Kandinsky -- "Concerning the spiritual in art" -- "Point line surface" -- Piet Mondrian -- Mondrian's life -- Mondrian and theosophy -- Mondrian's painting -- Neo-plasticism or the new image of the world -- Casimir Malevich -- "The world without object" -- Sculpture -- Vladimir Tatlin -- Constructivism -- Pevsner and Gabo -- Funcational constructivism -- De Stijl -- The Bauhaus -- 2. Abstract art of the thirties -- Painting -- Robert Delaunay -- Sculpture -- 3. Abstract art after 1945 -- Sculpture -- Painting -- Abstract painting and the value "time" -- Action painting -- The informal -- The margin of abstract art -- 4. Conclusion -- The philosophy of abstract art -- Abstract art and the findings of science -- This side of abstract art and beyond it -- Abstract art and communication -- Dead end of critical language and deepening of abstraction -- Art as opposed to science -- Comparative chronology |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 322-330 |
| Subject |
Art, Abstract.
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| LC no. |
75086121 |
| ISBN |
0670101176 |
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