Faith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction

by Joseph Masheck

Book Overview

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with the initiators of abstract painting, Joseph Masheck reveals how an underlying religiosity informed some of our most important abstract painters.

Covering Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and El Lissitzky, Masheck shows how 'revealed religion' has been an underlying but fundamental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350217018
• ISBN13: 9781350217010
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"