Inventing abstraction 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art /
[organized by] Leah Dickerman ; with contributions by Matthew Affron ... [et al.].
- London : New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd. ; Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
- 375 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction 1910-1925 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 23, 2012-April 15, 2013 organized by Lean Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture." --Colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstractions first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinskys ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrians work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark 0.10 exhibition in 1915.0Exhibition: MoMA, New York, USA (23.12.2012-15.4.2013).