Toward a Grammar of Abstraction: Modernity, Wittgenstein, and the Paintings of Jackson Pollock

by Robert Steiner

Toward a Grammar of Abstraction takes as its point of departure three features of modern art reading: the practice of translating the visual into institutional language, the vocabulary of representation in relation to abstract art, and the prevalence of totality as a model of art-historical knowledge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271008660
• ISBN13: 9780271008660
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.0"