Beyond resemblance : abstract art in the age of global conceptualism / Robert Linsley.

Author
Linsley, Robert [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London, UK : Reaktion Books, [2017]
Description
216 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

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    Art today may be global, Robert Linsley argues in this book, but it is the same everywhere you go: full of intentional meaning, statements, and even branded images that insist on a particular message. That is to say, art everywhere is "conceptual." In this first critique of global conceptual art, Linsley looks back at an older genre, abstract art, to reclaim some of its lost value not as an empty commodity to be traded by the wealthy but as a way for us to find perspective amid chaos. Linsley shows how abstraction is a response to the world we live in, one that deliberately avoids moralizing, explanation, or overt polemic. He champions the work of lesser-known but important artists from India, China, and Latin and Central America, such as Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Ding Yi and Gunther Gerzso as well as the more familiar names from history, such as Lucio Fontana, Frank Stella and Gerhard Richter, treating their work with equal seriousness. He also looks toward abstract arts future, showing that it still has plenty of life and purpose as a genre that helps us find a clear space to make sense of the times we live in. Ultimately, Linsley demonstrates the unique, rich, and full experience that abstract art can give us.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213).
    Contents
    • 1. A General Effect
    • 2. Abstraction and the World: A Provincial Comedy
    • 3. The Decay of Irony, or, The Future of a Negation
    • 4. Before Calligraphy
    • 5. A Shaped Illusion
    • 6. Drawing in Space
    • 7. From Relief to Installation
    • 8. Book of Creation: The Literariness of Abstraction
    • 9. Abstraction and Nature.
    Other title(s)
    Abstract art in the age of global conceptualism
    ISBN
    • 9781780236322 ((paperback))
    • 1780236328 ((paperback))
    OCLC
    944087167
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