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Pictures of Nothing

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Pictures of Nothing

By Kirk Varnedoe

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About the book

"What is abstract art good for? 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?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the n...Show more

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ISBN

9780691126784

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Pictures of Nothing

Format

Hardcover

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