Abstract Art Against Autonomy

by Mark A. Cheetham

Book Overview

In Abstract Art Against Autonomy, Mark Cheetham provides a revolutionary account of abstraction in the visual arts since the decline of the formalist paradigms in the 1960s. He claims that abstract work remains a vital contributor to contemporary visual culture, but that it performs in a way that is different from its predecessors of the early and mid-twentieth century and cannot adequately be assessed without new models of understanding. Cheetham...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521842069
• ISBN13: 9780521842068
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 10.3"