The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting

by Frances Guerin

Changing how we look at and think about the color grey

Why did many of the twentieth century's best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting?

By analyzing an array...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151790045X
• ISBN13: 9781517900458
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"