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- Softcover
- 360 pages
- 204 × 261 mm
- ISBN 9780500298381
- English
- Sep 2025
Now available in paperback, this is a radically new approach to the understanding of abstract art, expanded to include sixteen new contemporary artists from six continents, and an emphasis on textile as abstract.
Karmel builds this fresh approach to abstract art around five inclusive themes: body, landscape, cosmology, architecture and man-made signs and patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that go far beyond the established figures and movements traditionally associated with abstract art. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-provoking pairings with accompanying extended captions that provide an in-depth analysis. This wide-ranging examination incorporates work from Asia, Australia, Africa and South America, as well as Europe and North America, through artists ranging from Wu Guanzhong, Joan Miró and Jackson Pollock to Hilma af Klint and Odili Donald Odita. Breaking new ground, Karmel has forged a new history of this key art movement.
Publisher
Category
Information
- Softcover
- 360 pages
- 204 × 261 mm
- ISBN 9780500298381
- English
- Sep 2025
