Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century

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Frances Colpitt (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio) Donald B. Kuspit

Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century

Frances Colpitt (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio), Donald B. Kuspit

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English

Cambridge University Pres
07 May 2002

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960

Series: Contemporary Artists and their Critics

By the middle of the 20th century, abstraction was the accepted language of art as practiced by painters and articulated by critics, who began to investigate its historical and theoretical dimensions. Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century includes seminal essays on abstract painting by eleven of its most incisive critics and written over four decades, between 1960 and 2000. Tracing the post-Greenbergian development of such critical issues as hard-edge painting, deductive and serial structure, monochrome abstraction, the psychological analogy, regionalism, and the 'death of painting' in post-modernism, they examine works by Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Brice Marden, Sherrie Levine, and Gerhard Richter, among others. The introduction and commentary by Frances Colpitt situates the essays historically and examines their philosophical sources and influences, from formalism and phenomenology, to structuralism and poststructuralism. What emerges is a coherent and optimistic picture of abstract painting, the definitive contribution of modern art.

Edited by: Frances Colpitt (University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio)
Series edited by: Donald B. Kuspit
Imprint: Cambridge University Pres
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 393g
ISBN: 9780521004534
ISBN 10: 0521004535
Series: Contemporary Artists and their Critics
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 07 May 2002
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Four abstract Classicists Jules Langsner; 2. Literalism and abstraction: Frank Stella's retrospective at the Modern Philip Leider; 3. Serial imagery John Coplans; 4. The silent art Lucy R. Lippard; 5. After the ultimate Grégoire Müller; 6. Marden, Novros, Rothko: painting in the age of actuality Sheldon Nodelman; 7. The end of a painting Douglas Crimp; 8. Signs taken for wonders Hal Foster; 9. The current state of nonrepresentation Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; 10. The abstract self-object Donald Kuspit; 11. Once removed from what? David Pagel; 12. Systems of opinion: abstract painting since 1959 Frances Colpitt.