Ebook {Epub PDF} Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe

"Pictures of Nothing examines how, while names like Pollock, Mondrian and de Kooning are immediately recognized for their significance in modern culture, the importance of depicting squares or splattered paint is not as widely understood. With humor and candor, Varnedoe illuminates the meaning behind nonrepresentational works of the past 50 years—the contradictory intentions of Josef Albers's Brand: Princeton University Press.  · The accompanying publication, Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock, is available for purchase from the Gallery Shops. In this first lecture, originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on Ma, the distinguished art historian Kirk Varnedoe begins with Jackson Pollock at a key moment in the emergence of a new form of abstract art in the mids.  · "Pictures of Nothing examines how, while names like Pollock, Mondrian and de Kooning are immediately recognized for their significance in modern culture, the importance of depicting squares or splattered paint is not as widely understood. With humor and candor, Varnedoe illuminates the meaning behind nonrepresentational works of the past 50 years—the contradictory intentions of .

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Title. Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock. Volume of Bollingen Series (General) Series. Bollingen Series. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, ISSN Author. Kirk Varnedoe. Contributors. National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Adam Gopnik, Earl A. Powell III, Judy Metro. In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?". Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock. Kirk Varnedoe Foreword by Earl A. Powell, III Preface by Adam Gopnik. Cloth | November | $ / £ | ISBN: X pp. | 9 x 9. Shopping Cart | Endorsements Preface [in PDF format] Commemorative Lecture, National Gallery of Art, Decem.