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Abstraction

Paperback • 2013 • English

Abstraction

By Maria Lind

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This anthology reconsiders crucial aspects of abstraction's resurgence in contemporary art, exploring three equally significant strategies explored in current practice: formal abstraction, economic abstraction, and social abstraction. In the 1960s, movements as diverse as Latin American neo-concretism, op art and "eccentric abstraction" disrupted the homogeneity, universality, and rationality associated with abstraction. These modes of abstraction opened up new forms of engagement with the pheno...Show more

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9780262518369

Publisher

MIT PRESS

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Abstraction

Format

Paperback

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