1st Edition

Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

236 Pages 40 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

236 Pages 40 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

236 Pages 40 Color & 36 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth Century American Art: Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in American Modernist Painting

Chapter One: "Art Is as Broad as Space": Jonson’s Early Years in the West and Chicago

Chapter Two: "The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedy": New Mexico and Jonson’s Landscape Paintings and Compositions

Chapter Three: "These Are the Second Attack on the Abstract": the Thematic, Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929-1936

Chapter Four: "A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spirit": Jonson’s First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art and the Transcendental Painting Group

Chapter Five: "Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of Color–space–line and Design": Absolute Painting, 1938-1950

Chapter Six: "Causing the Surface to Come to Life": Jonson’s Late Career, 1950-1978

References

Index