ABSTRACT ART/ A GLOBAL HISTORY

Taking a radically new approach to the history of abstract painting, Pepe Karmel applies a scholarly yet fresh vision to reconsider the history of abstraction from a global perspective and to demonstrate that abstraction is embedded in the real world. Moving beyon d the orthodox canonical terrain of abstract art, he surveys artists from across the globe, examining their work from the point of v iew of content rather than form. Previous writers have approached the history of abstraction as a series of movements solving a seri es of for...[Read more]