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This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with.

Original and timely new study of contemporary painting's relationship with history and historical material. Uses examples of traditional and conceptual painting and practice to draw together historical and contemporary practice. 20 col. illus.

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The first account of the monochrome's lively role in contemporary art.

A fascination with an artwork's materiality remains one of the hallmarks of the visual arts and modernism during the 20th century. This critical text examines the role of materiality primarily within the context of modernist painting. The book encompasses a number of different historical and artistic contexts including the Russian avant-garde, Greenberg's aesthetic positivism, the significance of gesture in Abstract Expressionism and the art c...

The monochrome a single color of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas remains one of the most contentious modernist artistic inventions. But while the manufacture of these pictures of nothing was ostensibly straightforward, their subsequent theorization has been anything but. The monochrome is commonly associated with early twentieth century avant-garde painters such as Kazimir Malevich who pioneered the form with his Black Square in 19...

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