Abstract Art: Second Edition: 1 (World of Art) Paperback – Illustrated, 12 Mar. 2020
by Anna Moszynska (Author)


Since the early years of the 20th century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. Anna Moszynska traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in a broad cultural context. She examines the pioneering work of Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian alongside the Russian Constructivists, the De Stijl group, and the Bauhaus artists, contrasting European geometric abstraction in the 1930s and 40s with the emphasis on personal expression after the Second World War. Op, Kinetic, and Minimal art of the postwar period is discussed and illustrated in detail, and new chapters bring the account up to date, exploring the crisis in the abstraction of the 1980s and its revival – in paint, fabric, sculpture, and installation – in recent decades. The first edition of this book, published in 1990, was acclaimed by reviewers; now in full color and comprehensively revised, it will serve as the best introduction to abstract art for a new generation.


Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thames and Hudson Ltd; Second edition (12 Mar. 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500204454
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500204450
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.03 x 21.34 cm