‘ABSTRACT ART: A GLOBAL HISTORY’ By Pepe Karmel (Thames & Hudson) This large coffee table/art history book announces its singularity with its cover, a painting by Hilma af Klint, whose ...

Here, Karmel discusses the book, some of his greatest mentors ... It was like a chapel of what abstract art could be. I remember the day we finished hanging the paintings, I turned to Kirk ...

Her new book, “How Art Works,” is ambitious, covering everything from figurative paintings to abstract expressionism, tonal music, novels, and theatre. What’s unusual about this book is its ...

Big subjects deserve to be rewarded with big books whose authors know how to ... Pepe Karmel uncompromisingly states that ‘The history of abstract art has traditionally privileged white male ...

Books in Review Another World ... What if the story of abstract art in America begins not in New York or San Francisco but in the American Southwest? There is nothing sexier than turning an ...

the book conservatively equates abstract art with painting, disregarding a plethora of Australian innovators in video, sculpture and photography that would truly explain where abstract art is today.

Art's role in American intelligence history features in the new book 'ArtCurious ... The secrecy with which the CIA pursued Abstract Expressionism was not only integral to successfully fooling ...

They will include “Smoked Green” (1967), a piece that shows her abstract ... be in the books someday,’” Ms. Bracy recalled. Ms. Drexler’s experiences were reflected in the paintings ...

In her abstract paintings, she employs color, gestures, and composition to express her subjective experience as a person within a matrix of stereotypes. Hiroi will receive her Master of Fine Arts ...