Read The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting

The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting

Frances Guerin

4.9/5 (10692 ratings)

Description:Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? By analyzing an array of modernist paintings, Guerin demonstrates that grey has a unique history and a legitimate identity as a color. She traces its use by painters as far back as medieval and Renaissance art, through Romanticism, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism to show how grey is the perfect color to address the questions asked by painting within art history and to articulate the relationship between painting and the historical world of industrial modernity. A work of exceptional erudition, breadth, and clarity, presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries as examples, The Truth Is Always Grey is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting. To get started finding The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1452957258

Description: Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? By analyzing an array of modernist paintings, Guerin demonstrates that grey has a unique history and a legitimate identity as a color. She traces its use by painters as far back as medieval and Renaissance art, through Romanticism, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism to show how grey is the perfect color to address the questions asked by painting within art history and to articulate the relationship between painting and the historical world of industrial modernity. A work of exceptional erudition, breadth, and clarity, presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries as examples, The Truth Is Always Grey is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting. To get started finding The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting

The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting

More Books

A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany

A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany

[(On Not Looking : The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture)] [Edited by Frances Guerin] published on (February, 2015)

[(On Not Looking : The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture)] [Edited by Frances Guerin] published on (February, 2015)

[Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany] [Author: Guerin, Frances] [November, 2011]

[Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany] [Author: Guerin, Frances] [November, 2011]

The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Culture (Nonfictions)

The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Culture (Nonfictions)

APRENDE FRANCES EJERC+CD [Paperback] Guerin Cecile

APRENDE FRANCES EJERC+CD [Paperback] Guerin Cecile

Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany

Through Amateur Eyes: Film and Photography in Nazi Germany

Frances Guerin: On Not Looking : The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (Hardcover); 2015 Edition

Frances Guerin: On Not Looking : The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (Hardcover); 2015 Edition

On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

Unwatchable

Unwatchable