INVENTING ABSTRACTION, 19101925

In 1912, in several european cities, a handful of artistsvasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis picabia and robert Delaunaypre sented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at the museum of moder n art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork. It traces the development of abstraction as it moved through a ne twork of modern artists, from marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to piet mondrian and Kazimir malevich, sweeping across nations and across medi...[Read more]