Abstract Art

Dietmar Elger

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Taschen GmbH
02 April 2017

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Abstract Expressionism; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Basic Art

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of emotion and sensation.

This radical artistic adventure established new artistic means, as much as narratives. Expression became characterized by shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line. Artists abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands.

This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser-known figures who made equally significant contributions, including Antoni Tàpies, K. O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

By: Dietmar Elger
Imprint: Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 623g
ISBN: 9783836546782
ISBN 10: 3836546787
Series: Basic Art
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 02 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dietmar Elger studied art history, history, and literature at the University of Hamburg. In 1984/85, he was secretary of Gerhard Richter’s studio and between 1989 and 2006 curator for painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover. He has organized numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art and has directed the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2006. For TASCHEN he has authored the volumes Expressionism, Dadaism, and Abstract Art.

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Abstract Art

Dietmar Elger

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