Cubism and Abstract Art by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. - 9780367180188

Taylor & Francis

Cubism and Abstract ArtAuthor(s): Alfred H. Barr, Jr.\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367180188, 978-0367180188\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1936, in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century, and which had an impact on every major form of art.\n\nBarr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France Seurat and Neo-Impressionism, Gauguin and Synthetism, and Czanne through abstract tendencies in Dada and Surrealism. He distinguishes two main trends in abstract art: the geometrical, structural current as it developed in Cubism and later in Constructivism and Mondrian, and the intuitional, decorative current running from Matisse and Fauvism through Kandinskt and, later, Surrealism. He shows h.