258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1936, in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century, and which had an impact on every major form of art.
Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. Two Main Traditions of Abstract Art. 3. From Impressionism to Fauvism. 4. Analytical Cubism. 5. Futurism. 6. Abstract Expressionism in Germany. 7. Abstract Painting in Paris. 8. Synthetic Cubism. 9. Cubist Sculpture. 10. Brancusi. 11. Abstract Painting in Russia. 12. Constructivism. 13. Abstract Art in Holland: de Stijl; Neo-Plasticism. 14. Post-War Germany: The Bauhaus. 15. Purism. 16. Abstract Films. 17. Abstract Photography. 18. Abstract Dadaism. 19. Abstract Tendencies in Surrealist Art. 20. The Younger Generation.
Biography
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
