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Inventing abstraction, 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art / How a radical idea changed modern art [organized by] Leah Dickerman ; with contributions by Matthew Affron ... [et al.]. - New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Artbook/D.A.P., c2012. - 376 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

"Organized by Leah Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture"--P. 375. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 23, 2012-April 15, 2013"--P. 375.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inventing abstraction / Pablo Picasso : the Cadaqués experiment / Colors and games : music and abstraction, 1909 to 1912 / Vasily Kandinsky, without words / Mr. Kupka among verticals / On the move / Abstraction chez Delaunay / Contrasts of colors, contrasts of words / Léopold Survage's paper cinema / With color / Francis Picabia : abstraction and sincerity / Fernand Léger : metallic sensations / Giacomo Balla : the most luminous abstraction / Parole in libertà / Music, noise, and abstraction / Vorticism : planetary abstraction / Painting stripped bare / Decoration and abstraction in Bloomsbury / Against the circle / Early Russian abstraction, as such ; 0.10 / Piet Mondrian : toward the abolition of form / 3 De Stijl models / The spatial object ; The language of revolution / Sense and non-sense / Danced abstraction : Rudolf von Laban / Mary Wigman / The color grid / The abstract environment / Early abstraction in Poland / White shadows : photograms around 1922 / Rhythmus 21 and the genesis of filmic abstraction / The absolute film / Concrete abstraction / Abstraction in 1936 : Barr's diagrams / Abstraction in 1936 : Cubism and abstract art at the Museum of Modern Art / Leah Dickerman -- Yve-Alain Bois -- David Lang -- Leah Dickerman -- Lanka Tattersall -- Hubert Damisch -- Gordon Hughes -- Matthew Affron -- Jodi Hauptman -- Rachael Z. Delue -- Michael R. Taylor -- Matthew Affron -- Ester Coen -- Jodi Hauptman -- Christoph Cox -- Matthew Gale -- David Joselit -- Matthew Affron -- Rachael Z. Delue -- Masha Chlenova -- Yve-Alain Bois -- Yve-Alain Bois -- Maria Gough -- Hal Foster -- Mark Franko -- Danced abstraction : Mark Franko -- Lanka Tattersall -- Maria Gough -- Jaroslaw Suchan -- Susan Laxton -- Philippe-Alain Michaud -- Anton Kaes -- Peter Galison -- Glenn D. Lowry -- Leah Dickerman.

In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork. It traces the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. This richly illustrated publication covers a wide range of artistic production--including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, film, photography, sound poetry, atonal music and non-narrative dance--to draw a cross-media portrait of these watershed years. An introductory essay by Leah Dickerman, Curator in the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture, is followed by focused studies of key groups of works, events and critical issues in abstraction's early history by renowned scholars from a variety of fields.

ISBN: 9780870708282 0870708287 9780500239025 0500239029

LCCN: 2012950682

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art, Abstract--Exhibitions.
Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

LC Class. No.: N6494.A2 / I58 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 709.0405 LEA / 21078