Georges Vantongerloo
Georges Vantongerloo

Author: Georges Vantongerloo

Publisher: Actar

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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The catalogue is published on the occasion of the first individual exhibition of Georges Vantongerloo in Spain. The catalogue reveals the grounding of his work in the re-conceptualisation of pictorial and sculptural space that marked the abstract tendencies in art of the early 20th century. In the 1920s an important part of the Vantongerloos investigation was centred on colour as physical and perceptive phenomenon. Later, Vantongerloo will conceive his works according to strictly geometric rules, algebraic afterwards, to turn, thus, into the founder of the mathematical thought in art in our epoch. Genuine pioneer in the abstract sculpture field, the artist will continue, after 1945, proposing peculiar versions of that kind of sculpture, abandoning all the reference to a built geometry, and opening to a subjective approach to the universe of cosmology.

On Line
On Line

Author: Cornelia H. Butler

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0870707825

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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century explores the radical transformation of drawing that began during the last century as numerous artists critically re-examined the traditional concepts of the medium. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing and from reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed the line into real space, expanding the medium's relationship to gesture and form and connecting it with painting, sculpture, photography, film and dance. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, On Line presents a discursive history of mark-making through nearly 250 works by 100 artists, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Calder, Karel Malich, Eva Hesse, Anna Maria Maiolino, Richard Tuttle, Mona Hatoum and Monika Grzymala, among many others. Essays by the curators illuminate individual practices and examine broader themes, such as the exploration of the line by the avant-garde and the relationship between drawing and dance.

Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections
Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections

Author: Georges 1886-1965 Vantongerloo

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9781013771866

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Composing the Space
Composing the Space

Author: László Moholy-Nagy

Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783960986591

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This catalogue follows experimentation in avant-garde sculpture in its dialogue with space, movement and the human body, guided by the theory and practice of Katarzyna Kobro. For the first time, Kobro's work will be presented in the context of the work of her contemporaries, such as Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Gustaw Klucis, El Lissitzky, Antoine Pevsner, Friedrich Kiesler and Oskar Schlemmer. Text: Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Katarzyna Kobro, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Vladimir Tatlin, Georges Vantongerloo. Texts by researchers: Yve-Alain Bois, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Rosalind Krauss, Megan Luke, Alex Potts. Exhibition: Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland (04.10.2019 - 02.02.2020).

Purity Is a Myth
Purity Is a Myth

Author: Zanna Gilbert

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2021-08-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1606067230

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Presenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America. Purity Is a Myth presents new scholarship on Concrete art in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s. Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Van Doesburg argued that there was nothing more real than a line, color, or plane. Artists such as Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Judith Lauand, Raúl Lozza, Tomás Maldonado, Hélio Oiticica, and Rhod Rothfuss would reinvent this concept in postwar Latin America. Drawing on research conducted by Getty and international partners, the essays in this volume address a variety of topics, including the general history, emergence, and reception of Concrete art; processes and color; scientific analysis of works; illustrated chronologies of the paint industry in Brazil and Argentina; and Concrete design on paper. An innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America, this volume will be indispensable to scholars, practitioners, and students of Latin American art.

Theo Van Doesburg
Theo Van Doesburg

Author: Paul Dujardin

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300222432

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Résumé en 4ème de couverture: "After the First World War, the European avant-gardes longed for change and hoped for a better future. More than any other artist, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) took part in this reconstruction effort by broadening Piet Mondian's Neoplastic aesthetic to all disciplines: painting, sculpture, architecture and the applied arts. Theo van Doesburg proposed a genuine revolution that sought to transform the world in every way, to create a new kind of artistic expression, wich would interact not only with life in all its complexity but also with scientific and technological developments. His constantly changing approach brought together apparently incompatible innovation, as demonstrated by this move toward Elementarism and then to Art Concret. To champion his project on the international stage, Van Doesburg, who was also the founder of th De Stijl movement and its magazine, succeeded in bringing together all the leading artists. He is recognized as much for his visual achievements as for his means of accomplishing a philosophical, artistic an collective ideal. Many artists, including Mondrian, would largely owe their internation renown to Theo van Doesburg."

De Stijl
De Stijl

Author: Paul Overy

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780500202401

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The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine De Stijl.

Gray Collection
Gray Collection

Author: Kevin Salatino

Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0300250800

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An engaging survey of a renowned collection of drawings that includes work by artists from Guercino and Hendrick Goltzius to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Jaume Plensa One of America's foremost art dealers, Richard Gray--along with his wife, the art historian Mary L. Gray--amassed a remarkable collection of drawings, paintings, and sculpture representing 700 years of Western art. Offering an in-depth look at the Gray Collection's drawings, this volume highlights 36 exceptional works that range from the 15th through the 20th century by artists such as Paolo Veronese, François Boucher, Auguste Rodin, Jackson Pollock, and Tadao Ando. Entries by scholars from a variety of fields provide new perspectives on individual drawings and discuss the ways in which they reflect changes in artistic practice and the evolution of draftsmanship. This handsome publication also features the guest book from the Richard Gray Gallery, a fascinating historical document adorned with drawings and salutations from the likes of Susan Sontag, Ellsworth Kelly, and Tom Wolfe.

Contrasts of Form
Contrasts of Form

Author: Magdalena Dabrowski

Publisher: Museum

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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Magdalena Dabrowski retraces the course of geometric abstract art in our century, she divides the years from 1910 to 1980- into five spans. The first: Origins of the Nonobjective - Cubism, Futurism, Cubo-Futurism. The second: Surface to space - Suprematism, de Stiji, Russian Constructivism. Then, Internation constructivism, followed by Paris-New Yourk connection and finally, Nonfigurative tendrncies.