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DISCREPANT ABSTRACTION
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By: |
Kobena Mercer (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£32.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
026263337X |
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9780262633376 |
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MIT PRESS LTD |
Pub. date: |
7 July, 2006 |
Series: |
Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts |
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224 |
Description: |
How the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized by creative discrepancies--a cross-cultural voyage stretching from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States. |
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For anyone who thinks the question of abstract art is settled, this book will come as a surprise. Discrepant abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange. It includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic purity. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in twentieth-century art, this second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in wide-ranging international contexts.Impure, imperfect, and incomplete, the version of abstraction that emerges from this global journey--from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States--shows how the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized, from abstract expressionism onwards, by creative discrepancies that arise when disparate visual languages are brought into dialogue. Discrepant Abstraction is essential reading for students, practitioners and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts.Copublished with inIVA/Institute of International Visual Arts, London |
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33 color illus. |
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US |
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MIT Press |
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