Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Hartel is Adjunct Associate Professor of Art History at John Jay College, CUNY. Zusammenfassung This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth Century American Art: Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in American Modernist Painting Chapter One: "Art Is as Broad as Space": Jonson’s Early Years in the West and Chicago Chapter Two: "The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedy": New Mexico and Jonson’s Landscape Paintings and Compositions Chapter Three: "These Are the Second Attack on the Abstract": the Thematic, Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929-1936 Chapter Four: "A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spirit": Jonson’s First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art and the Transcendental Painting Group Chapter Five: "Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of Color–space–line and Design": Absolute Painting, 1938-1950 Chapter Six: "Causing the Surface to Come to Life": Jonson’s Late Career, 1950-1978 References Index

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• Authors: Herbert Hartel, Herbert (John Jay College Hartel, Herbert R. Hartel, Jr. Hartel, HARTEL JR., Herbert R. Hartel Jr.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138712546
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71254-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; USA, 20th Century, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, ART / American / General, ART / Techniques / Painting, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Modernism, United States of America, USA, Abstract Expressionism, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Art & Design Styles: Abstract Expressionism