Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925

by Michael Taylor

Leah Dickerman (Editor), Matthew Affron, Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Hal Foster, Distinguished Professor David Joselit, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Lanka Tatersall, and David Joselit

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Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925 explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstraction's early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstraction's first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinsky's ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrian's work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark `0.10' exhibition in 1915.
  • ISBN10 0870708287
  • ISBN13 9780870708282
  • Publish Date 31 January 2013 (first published 7 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Museum of Modern Art
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 376
  • Language English