Art-as-art : the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt / edited and with an introduction by Barbara Rose.
"Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the asc...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991]
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| Summary: | "Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas about art and life were often at odds with those of his contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism. Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as they were when he first expressed them."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1975. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236). |
| ISBN: | 0520076702 9780520076709 |