Description
Book SynopsisAn important new survey on abstract art that takes content as a guide to form, and breaks open the canon to make room for artists from across the globe.
Trade Review'Karmel approaches the field not as a steady tunnelling toward nothingness, as figures and other discernible objects fell away, but as something more dynamic - and much less white, Western, and male' - Vogue.com
'Handsomely illustrated' - Best Art Books of 2020, Sunday Times
'Magnificent … warmly recommended to anyone who loves art and possesses an open mind' - Evening Standard
'Carefully conceived and beautifully produced... an original and valuable way to approach twentieth and twenty-first-century abstraction' - artblog.com
Table of Contents1. Bodies: Dancers, Athletes and Poets; Workers and Machines; Totems; Presences; Organs and Fluids • 2. Landscapes: Vortexes and Gusts; Cliffs, Waterfalls and Fog; Waves; Open Windows; Vibrations • 3. Cosmologies: Orbits; Suns and planets; Star Charts • 4. Architectures: Towers, Buildings and Boxes; Windows, Plans and Elevations • 5. Signs & Patterns: Fabric and Decoration; Typography; Calligraphy; Maps and Charts
