"Another
fine addition to the World of Art series."
— Booklist
By
placing abstract art within its political and cultural history, Anna
Moszynska elucidates a form that, since its origin, has bewildered
its admirers and detractors alike. She offers the reader a comprehensive
trajectory of abstraction — from the radically new pictorial
language of Bella and Delaunnay, to the visceral spirituality of Kandinsky
and Mondrian, to the geometrically-obsessed artists of the 1930s and
1940s. The author takes us from the origin of the movement during
the First World War to the post-World War II Zeitgeist that emphasized
personal expression, and finally, to the revival of Abstraction practiced
by Neo-Geo, among others, in the 1980s. A succinct and deftly written
account of abstraction, Moszynska offers both an overview of the philosophy
of the movement as well as analyses of the approaches of individual
artists.
By
placing abstract art within its political and cultural history, Anna
Moszynska elucidates a form that, since its origin, has bewildered
its admirers and detractors alike. She offers the reader a comprehensive
trajectory of abstraction — from the radically new pictorial
language of Bella and Delaunnay, to the visceral spirituality of Kandinsky
and Mondrian, to the geometrically-obsessed artists of the 1930s and
1940s. The author takes us from the origin of the movement during
the First World War to the post-World War II Zeitgeist that emphasized
personal expression, and finally, to the revival of Abstraction practiced
by Neo-Geo, among others, in the 1980s. A succinct and deftly written
account of abstraction, Moszynska offers both an overview of the philosophy
of the movement as well as analyses of the approaches of individual
artists.