"Public Abstraction"

by Vlado Velkov, Johannes Teiser and Kunstverein Arnsberg

Could it be that fundamental aspects of abstraction remain to be discovered? Abstraction is usually conceived of formally and pictorially, whereby its underlying thought patterns often recede into the background. This book attempts to question the notion of abstraction and art history’s use of it by opening the term up to new interpretations in relation to the public and social spheres of activity. Numerous artistic contributions as well as essays by Gerrit Gohlke, Stefan Heidenreich, Alexander Koch, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Petra Reichensperger, Raimar Stange, Marcus Steinweg, and Vlado Velkov indicate various ways of reconsidering abstraction as a process and a method of artistic production.

300 pages
English/German

ISBN-10: 3863357418
ISBN-13: 978-3863357412
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
22 Euro

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