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Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1986. 27.5 x 23.0cms, 180pp, b/w *& colour illusts, very good- paperback & cover (creased front cover; some ink underlining) Stella illustrates the crisis in abstract art via the crisis in representation in 16th century Italian art. He argues that contemporary artists can find inspiration in Caravaggio's attempts to create a more flexible, more 'real' space that allowed painting to move & breathe. The chapters are: the Madonna of the Rosary; Annibale Carracci; Picasso; a common complaint; the Dutch Savannah.

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1986. 27.5 x 23.0cms, 180pp, b/w *& colour illusts, very good paperback & cover Stella illustrates the crisis in abstract art via the crisis in representation in 16th century Italian art. He argues that contemporary artists can find inspiration in Caravaggio's attempts to create a more flexible, more 'real' space that allowed painting to move & breathe. The chapters are: the Madonna of the Rosary; Annibale Carracci; Picasso; a common complaint; the Dutch Savannah.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 11.5" by 9.5"; 11" by 8.5". Wassily Kandinsky; Saint John the Baptist et al.. The first edition of Frank Stella's work on abstract art, with the very scarce uncorrected proof with editorial annotations throughout. The first edition, first impression with a complete numberline, with the uncorrected proof copy of the work. Two volumes. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper to 'Working Space' with the 'Uncorrected Proof' being in the publisher's original paper covers.Illustrated throughout with vibrant full colour and monochrome illustrations. This work was written by Frank Stella, an American painter, printmaker and artist, and provides a detailed and informed view on abstract art from the eyes of an artist. The work contains a series of talks that were given as part of Stella's delivery of the 'Charles Eliot Norton Lectures' in 1983-84, which are given as part of a professorship that… Read More

Cambridge MA: 1986. 178 pages, illustrated throughout. Signed by the artist in black pen on the title page. Paperback 23 x 28cms. ISBN: 0674959612.