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From one of today's most revered artists, this exquisite volume explores a critical facet of Ellsworth Kelly's development as an abstractionist. Since the 1940s Ellsworth Kelly has developed a unique vocabulary of abstraction based on the observation of nature and the world aroun...

A broad and deep anthology of critic and art historian Richard Shiff's most influential writings, which have shaped our understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.

Surveying the art of 5 decades, from 1867 to 1917, this book follows the broad and diverse ways that artists and their public learnt to see and to judge works of art abstractly. It argues that abstraction arose directly from a tradition of speculation about the nature of art and ...