Abstract Art: A Global History
by Karmel, Pepe
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (bruise/indentation to spine top w/ creasing; creasing to spine tail. minor indentation to lower board edge. dustjacket has c
- ISBN 10
- 0500239584
- ISBN 13
- 9780500239582
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London / New York: Thames and Hudson, 2020. Hardcover. VG (bruise/indentation to spine top w/ creasing; creasing to spine tail. minor indentation to lower board edge. dustjacket has creasing to spine top, edge-wear). golden-rod boards w/ blind-stamped emblem & spine printing, 344 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. red & black illustrated dustjacket. Remains a nice, bright and sharp copy. Lavishly illustratted. "In his fresh take on abstract art, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from a global perspective, while embedding abstraction in a recognizable reality. Moving beyond the canonical terrain of abstract art, the author demonstrates how artists from around the world have used abstract imagery to express social, cultural, and spiritual experience.Karmel builds this fresh approach to abstract art around five inclusive themes: body, landscape, cosmology, architecture, and man-made signs and patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that go far beyond the established figures and movements traditionally associated with abstract art. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-provoking pairings with accompanying extended captions that provide an in-depth analysis. This wide-ranging examination incorporates work from Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America, as well as Europe and North America, through artists ranging from Wu Guanzhong, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, to Hilma af Klint, and Odili Donald Odita. Breaking new ground, Karmel has forged a new history of this key art movement."--Amazon.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 190890
- Title
- Abstract Art: A Global History
- Author
- Karmel, Pepe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (bruise/indentation to spine top w/ creasing; creasing to spine tail. minor indentation to lower board edge. dustjacket has c
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0500239584
- ISBN 13
- 9780500239582
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- American Art, abstract art, pepe karmel ; abstract art ; ;
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