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The truth is always grey : a history of modernist painting / Frances Guerin.
Fine Arts Library ND1495.P8 G84 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guerin, Frances, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gray--Psychological aspects.
- Gray.
- Gray in art.
- Painting--Philosophy.
- Painting.
- Modernism (Art).
- Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 339 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The color grey
- What Is grey painting? : tracing a historical trajectory
- Visualizing modern life : photography's influence on nineteenth-century grey painting
- Grey abstraction : form and function in American postwar painting
- Beyond modernist abstraction : the social significance of grey painting
- Reinvention and perpetuation : the possibility of grey for Gerhard Richter
- Epilogue: The irresolution of grey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781517900441
- 1517900441
- 9781517900458
- 151790045X
- OCLC:
- 1007304026
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