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1	Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890 - 1985 more books like this by Maurice Tuchman add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $121.48! \| first editions
2	Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century more books like this by Charles Harrison, Gill Perry, Professor Francis Frascina add to wishlist This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. The book presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The ... see all copies from $5.17! new only from $36.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Jackson Pollock more books like this by Professor Ellen G Landau add to wishlist Pollock's large, bold canvasses revolutionized the world of art just after World War II. More than 100 are reproduced here in full color to capture the brilliance of his palette, and six gatefolds show his vast horizontal works without distortion. 270 illustrations, 120 in full color. see all copies from $13.56! new only from $116.07! \| first editions
4	Mark Rothko : works on paper more books like this by Bonnie Clearwater add to wishlist Mark Rothko, a monumental figure in twentieth-century American art and a founder of Abstract Expressionism, is universally known for his huge paintings depicting floating rectangles of glowing colours. Less well known are his works on paper: he held onto most of these, and they were unavailable and largely unknown during his lifetime and during ... see all copies from $5.73! new only from $30.10! \| first editions
5	Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism more books like this by Irving Sandler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
6	The Paintings of Joan Mitchell more books like this by Jane Livingston, Linda Nochlin, Yvette Y Lee add to wishlist Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women among the first-rank abstract expressionist painters. She outpaced all but a handful of her male mentors and counterparts, while only Lee Krasner stands as a possible rival among her female counterparts. This illustrated volume accompanies an exhibition that spans Mitchell's entire career, from ... see all copies from $22.25! new only from $31.47! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Abstract Expressionism: A Critical Record more books like this by David Shapiro (Editor), Cecile Shapiro (Editor) add to wishlist Abstract Expressionism was the dominant movement in experimental American painting from the 1940s through the early 1960s. This book is a collection of articles, reviews and essays that chronicle the history of the movement. Drawing upon a range of sources, including newspapers, magazines and exhibition catalogues, the original debates about the ... see all copies from $3.10! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Invention of Painting in America more books like this by Professor David Rosand add to wishlist Struggling to create an identity distinct from the European tradition but lacking an established system of support, early painting in America received little cultural acceptance in its own country or abroad. Yet despite the initial indifference with which it was first met, American art flourished against the odds and founded the aesthetic ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.09! \| SVS
9	Lee Krasner more books like this by Robert Carleton Hobbs add to wishlist This work chronicles the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the most inventive Abstract Expressionist painters. Lee Kranser occupies a special place in Abstract Expressionism as a major female painter in a group of artists known for their macho individuality. Aproaching art-making as a forum for communicating her discoveries about the self, ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $14.79! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Willem de Kooning more books like this by Harry F Gaugh add to wishlist With more than 100 illustrations -- approximately 48 in full color -- this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era. Modern Masters form a perfect reference set for home, school, or library. Each handsomely designed volume presents: - A thorough survey of the artist's life and work - ... see all copies from $3.59! new only from $14.79! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Jackson Pollock: A Biography more books like this by Deborah Solomon add to wishlist Illustrated with twenty-five reproductions of Pollock's paintings, the book looks into the passions, conflicts, relationships, and influences of the artist, Jackson Pollock, widely considered the finest American painter of the twentieth century. see all copies from $6.17! new only from $9.22! \| first editions
12 view cover	Exploring the Invisible: Science & Abstract Art more books like this by Lynn Gamwell, Professor Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Foreword by) add to wishlist This sumptuous and stunningly illustrated book shows through words and images how directly, profoundly, and indisputably modern science has transformed modern art. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, a strange and exciting new world came into focus - a world of microorganisms in myriad shapes and colors, prehistoric fossils, bizarre undersea ... see all copies from $108.07! new only from $268.53!
13 view cover	Working Space more books like this by Frank D Stella add to wishlist "Working Space" affords an opportunity to view painting through the eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters. Frank Stella uses the crisis of representational art in 16th-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in the late 20th century. Professionals, students, collectors and art lovers should find Stella's non ... see all copies from $9.04! new only from $22.77! \| first editions
14 view cover	Joan Mitchell more books like this by Judith E Bernstock, Thomas W Leavitt (Foreword by) add to wishlist A master of color and abstraction, Joan Mitchell was one of the most respected American artists in the world. She began exhibiting with the Abstract Expressionists in the early 1950s and remained a quintessential New York School painter while living her last 35 years in France. This volume shows her work in 8 b&w and 118 colorplates, including 8 ... see all copies from $55.29! first editions
15 view cover	Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock more books like this by Kirk Varnedoe add to wishlist '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 ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $36.21! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Karin Davie more books like this by Barry Schwabsky, Louis Grachos (Foreword by), Lynne Tillman (Afterword by) add to wishlist With her bold use of color and undulating, twisting lines, Karin Davie works at the intersection between representation and abstraction, creating sensuous, psychological, and completely exhilarating canvases. "In a sense, painting is like dance--the movement, the process, the image. But the moment you are making the painting, something else enters ... see all copies from $4.60! new only from $30.26! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lee Krasner more books like this by Professor Ellen G Landau, Eugene Victor Thaw (Introduction by) add to wishlist Here is the long-awaited catalogue raisonné of the work of Lee Krasner, a pivotal figure in American art and the wife of famed Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollack. This volume lists every known work in every medium by Krasner--on paper, on canvas, on mosaic, in collage, even a few that are now lost--and illustrates all but a handful of the more ... see all copies from $150.00! new only from $150.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art more books like this by Cesar Paternosto, Esther Allen (Translator) add to wishlist The ancient art of the Andes achieved its most sophisticated expression in weaving and painted pottery, as well as stone sculpture. Yet these objects have long been dismissed as "craft" items by observers for whom "art" means paintings on canvas and other manifestations of the European art tradition. In this major, paradigm-shifting book, first ... see all copies from $18.90! new only from $80.99! \| first editions
19 view cover	Jackson Pollock; energy made visible more books like this by B. H. Friedman add to wishlist Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (19121956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented by his relationship to his family; an artist who worked hard through years of poverty to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Abstract Art more books like this by Mel Gooding add to wishlist Abstract art in its many forms has been a dominant mode in the visual arts for the better part of a century. Popular histories usually trace "abstraction" as a succession of style or "isms," each set within it particular art-historical context, assuming a general familiarity with this kind of critical narrative. The book addresses itself to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.41! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Lee Krasner: A Retrospective more books like this by Ms. Barbara Rose add to wishlist see all copies from $5.44! first editions
22 view cover	Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe more books like this by Brian P Kennedy add to wishlist A career retrospective centered on the signature stripe motif of one of the most esteemed abstract painters working today. Sean Scully has made the motif of stripes his own, offering through them a sustained exploration of the nature of human relationships. We learn to read his stripes and colored shapes as meditations on, for example, union and ... see all copies from $31.01! new only from $31.01! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Jay Defeo and the Rose more books like this by Jane Green (Editor), Leah Levy (Editor) add to wishlist Rarely has an artist been so closely associated with a single work as is Jay Defeo with her painting "The Rose". In this major study of "The Rose" in particular and of Jay DeFeo in general, 11 art and cultural historians and writers unfold the story of the creation and rescue of her masterpiece. see all copies from $5.20! new only from $6.25! \| first editions
24 view cover	Terence La Noue more books like this by Dore Ashton add to wishlist Nearly three decades of work are represented, demonstrating both a remarkably varied body of abstract work as well as its inherent continuity. Numerous details, immense gatefolds, and a description of La Noue's unique studio technique permit a true understanding of his beautiful and influential work. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $18.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Brice Marden Drawings more books like this by Janie C Lee, Brice Marden add to wishlist In his 30-year career, Brice Marden (b. 1938) has changed the look of abstraction. Remarkably, he has done it not once, but twice: first in the 1960s, with his solid forms and muted tonalities, and later with the calligraphic imagery that culminated in the Cold Mountain series. In this book, it becomes clear that Marden's innovative concepts began ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $50.00! \| first editions

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