Abstraction/Modernism - New Visual Language
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2011.
Abstraction and Modernism forged a daring new definition of art, breaking dramatically with the past. Discover the philosophical and experiential underpinnings of abstraction and nonrepresentational art, now radically freed from imitating nature. Encounter art's new language in visionary works by Kandinsky, Marc, Pollock, De Kooning, and others.