About this title: 'What is abstract art good for? What's the use - for us as individuals, or for any society - of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?' In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades.He makes a compelling argument for its ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. slight wear to dust jacket; look almost new; one library stamp on first page; RTB1074. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 297 p. Contains: Illustrations. Bollingen, 48. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First printing. Oversize hardback. Fine in dustjacket with minute wear to top of the spine. Contens are perfect. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006-10-09
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
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Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: 2006
Description: Textual illustrations. Some light binding soil. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 25x25cm, 297 pp, Series: Bollingen series, 48. "'What is abstract art good for? What's the use-for us as individuals, or for any society-of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves? 'In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and ... read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. no marks. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 297 p. Contains: Illustrations. Bollingen, 48. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: New. "Varnedoe was an especially distinguished and influential curator and interpreter of modern art, and this book, in effect, is his last testament. It is in the analysis of specific works of art or bodies of work by a specific artist that Varnedoe shin... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: New. What is abstract art good for? What's the use-for us as individuals, or for any society-of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves? This book presents an account of... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: Very Good. In a Very Good Dust Jacket. Faint dampstaining to dust jacket and top of some pages, not affecting readability. 'Examination Copy, Not for Resale, ' stamp on bottom page edges. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780691126784ISBN:069112678X
Description: Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. White illustrated jacket; title in grey strip along spine; 297 pp. In Mylar cover. FREE MEDIA SHIPPING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S. read more
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