Beyond Resemblance: Abstract Art in the Age of Global Conceptualism

by Robert Linsley

Art today may be global, Robert Linsley argues in this book, but it is the same everywhere you go: full of intentional meaning, statements, and even branded images that insist on a particular message. That is to say, art everywhere is conceptual. In this first critique of global conceptual art, Linsley looks back at an older genre, abstract art, to reclaim some of its lost value--not as an empty commodity to be traded by the wealthy but as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780236328
• ISBN13: 9781780236322
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.1"