Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: With his La Peinture efficace: une histoire de l’abstraction aux Etats-Unis (1910-1960), Eric de Chassey is intent upon championing a particular thesis: abstraction, in the United States, is not a style but a method permitting a communication or communion with the beholder. Drawing on the aesthetics of reception, he doesn’t shy away from quoting artists, critics and journalists, and as a rule keeps his distance from the works themselves. The introduction tosses this staggering declaration at...
Source: Critique d’art
Author: Patrick Javault
Language: French
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1984577196