Anna Moszynska shows here how abstract art originated and evolved, placing it in its broad historical and cultural context.
She traces the paths to abstraction forged by artists such as Balla, Kupka and Delaunay, and examines the pioneering work of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, the Russian Constructivists, the De Stijl group and the Bauhaus artists, and contrasts the geometric tendencies of the 1930s and 1940s with the post-War emphasis on personal expression that culminated in Abstract Expressionism in the United States.
Finally, Anna Moszynska considers the work of ‘Post-Painterly’, Op, Kinetic and Minimal artists and examines the revived abstraction practised by Neo-Geo and other artists of the 1980s.
- ISBN13 9780500202371
- Publish Date 26 February 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English