Resisting Abstraction

Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

Gordon Hughes

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University of Chicago Press
25 November 2014

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

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.

WithResisting 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, set him apart from the more ethereal abstraction of contemporaries like Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, and Frantiek Kupka. In fact, Delaunay emphatically rejected the spiritual motivations and idealism of that group, rooting his work instead in contemporary science and optics. Thus he set the stage not only for the modern artists who would follow, but for the critics who celebrated them as well.

By: Gordon Hughes
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 29mm, Width: 22mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.077kg
ISBN: 9780226159065
ISBN 10: 022615906X
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 25 November 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gordon Hughes is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University, the editor of Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War One, and coeditor of October Files: Richard Serra.

Reviews for Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism

For over a century, Robert Delaunay s modernist masterpiece, First Disk (1913), has defied understanding by all comers. Now in a brilliantly economical tour de force of historical and critical recreation, Gordon Hughes has solved the mystery. Resisting Abstraction is a wonderful book, one that will instantly take its place on a short shelf of indispensable studies of the great years of early twentieth-century art. --Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University