Working Space

This book affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world's most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other artists' work as well as his own, in this generously illustrated volume.

About the author

Frank Stella was born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, and was educated at Andover and Princeton. An amazingly productive and energetic artist, he has created a large and varied body of work.

Summary

Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world’s foremost abstract painters. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Stella, Stella Frank
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.1986
• EAN: 9780674959613
• ISBN: 978-0-674-95961-3
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 279 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 36 color, 56 duotones
• Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs