About this title: Almost one hundred years ago, artists began eliminating the familiar visible world from their paintings. Abstraction enabled artists to embody their ideas in paintings, many of which concerned the spiritual, including references to popular belief systems such as Theosophy and Rosicrucianism. Yet as the 20th-century progressed, those unfashionable ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Abbeville Press, Los Angeles and New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780875871301ISBN:0875871305
Description: Very Good. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 435 pp., illus. (some col. ), bib. notes, index; 27 x 27 cm. Exhibition schedule: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (opening Nov. 1986); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Hague. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Page fold on first 4 pages, otherwise as new. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. The emphasis is on Symbolism, Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism in ... read more
Description: Fine; Angeles County Museum Of Art; 1986; Softcover. 0875871305. Color and b/w illustration. Catalogue to accompany an exhibition in several museums in 1987. Collection of essays related to issues of spirituality in abstract art.; Square 4to 9"-11" tall; 435 pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Abbeville Press, Los Angeles and New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780875871301ISBN:0875871305
Description: Very Good. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 435 pp., illus. (some col. ), bib. notes, index; 27 x 27 cm. Exhibition schedule: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (opening Nov. 1986); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Hague. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. The emphasis is on Symbolism, Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism in European & American modern art. A ... read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Abbeville Press Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780896596696ISBN:0896596699
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 435 pp., 462 illustrations 144 in color. Slight yellowing to the edges, consistent with age, otherwise fine. This book was acquired from the home of a smoker and retains a minimal residual odor. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA 23 November 1986-8 March 1987, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL 17 April-19 July 1987 and the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1 September-22 November 1987. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Abbeville Press Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780896596696ISBN:0896596699
Description: New in Fine Condition jacket. 435 pp., 462 illustrations 144 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA 23 November 1986-8 March 1987, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL 17 April-19 July 1987 and the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1 September-22 November 1987. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Abbeville Press, NY
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780875871301ISBN:0875871305
Description: Very Good + 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Copy has tiny owner sticker on the fep, minor shelfwear rubbing, tape on the lower spine (personal library), an ink drawing on the bep-small abstract box of lines. Outstanding collection of color and b/w plates of the spiritual in art: abstract painting 1890-1985. Fascinating text by numerous contributors covers many aspects; Abstract film and color music; occult literature in France; numerous artists; mysticism, romanticism, and the fourth dimension; esoteric ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Abbeville Press (for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art), New York
Date Published: 1986
Description: A square 4to. Edition in custom wraps and printed on enamel; A FINE COPY. 434 pages. With twenty superb articles with plates and engravings accompanying the text. "Esoteric Culture and Russian Society" by John Bowlt; "Mysticism, Romanticism, and the Fourth Dimension" by L.R. Henderson; "Arp, Kandinsky, and the Legacy of Jacob Boehme" by Harriet Watts; "Occult Literature in Russia" by Kasinec and Kerdimun to list a few selections. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Date Published: 1986-12
ISBN-13:9780875871301ISBN:0875871305
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Description: Good. 0789200562 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Edition: First Thus.
Binding: Oversize Paperback in color illus wraps w gilt titling.
Publisher: Abbeyville Press, LA County Museum of Art, New York, Los Angeles
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780875871301ISBN:0875871305
Description: VeryGood unmarked, light edgewear. Massive catalog of a 1987 touriing art exhibition in Los Angeles, Chicago, and The Hague. Wonderful reproductions and commentary. Solid bright clean copy. 10-1/2 x 10-1/2, 435 pp, index, chronologies, b/w & color reproductions, black endpapers, all edges tinted black. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: NY; London; Paris: Abbeville Press; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780875871301ISBN:0875871305
Description: 1st edition, 3rd printing; 435 pp. : illustrations, many in color; 28 cm.; ISBN: 0875871305 (pbk. ); LCCN: 86-14093; OCLC: 13793368; LC: ND192. A25; Dewey: 759.06/52074; organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill. ), and the Haags Gemeentemuseum; Contents: Hidden meanings in abstract art / Maurice Tuchman--Sacred geometry: French symbolism and early abstraction / Robert P. Welsh--Annunciation of the new mysticism: Dutch symbolism and early ... read more
Description: NY: Abbeville Press, 1986. Copious b/w and full color illustrations. 435 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. A lovely copy. Very good+/Very good+. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Date Published: 1986-12
ISBN-13:9780896596696ISBN:0896596699
Description: Good. Excellent customer service. May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability. Satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
"A very interesting book that offers an "underground" history of abstract art. While I have no problem with "art for art's sake", which a lot of abstract art can appear to be, this book goes into great historical detail about how many of the developments in abstract art actually stemmed from the applied spiritual pursuits of artists, and therefore provides a sort of subject matter for many paintings that only appear to have none.
There were plenty of artists in this book I had never previously heard of, some of whom didn't even consider themselves artists; in particular a Swedish woman named Hilma af Klint who was a member of a seance and who produced some very interesting geometrical "spirit" drawings in the early 20th century.
The book includes scores of smallish but good quality reproductions of paintings and there's a great list of artists in the back complete with biographical timelines."
"If you are interested in seeing paintings that are created from an inner experience of a kind of expanded consciousness, this is a fantastic book. It covers many recognized and not so recognized painters, who have expressed this inner, spiritual experience in their paintings."
"This is one of my favorite books in my library. This is one of those "desert island" volumes. I used to get high fairly regularly. Now when I need to alter my state of consciousness, I look at these paintings and I get pretty much the same effect. Here's your SDVIG and it's not just textual...it's more the conceptual sort of SDVIG. This isn't where I first learned that "Everything that was going to happen in the 20th century in art first happened in Russian in the first two decades of the century," but it can be easily proven with the assistance of this volume. Many later recapitulations were (falsely) applauded as novel. This title is probably a little hard to find now, but well worth the hunt...the paintings in here range from obscure alchemical tract illustrations to nonpareil masterpieces by obscure painters to obscure works by well-known painters that fit the theme of this work. If you need a good alternate Holy Book to reify the spiritual and mystical impulses and experiences in your life, this might just be a good candidate. And absolutely no prosciptions or prescriptions are handed down....only vision."
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