Exhibiting Abstraction - Strategies in the Propagation of an Avant-garde 1908-1915

Die Zeit um 1910 ist als Moment der "Erfindung der Abstraktion" in die Kunstgeschichte eingegangen. Wo und wann Werke nicht-figurativer Kunst öffentlich präsentiert wurden, ist bisher aber wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt worden. Exhibiting Abstraction widmet sich erstmals der Präsentation abstrakter Kunst zwischen 1908 und 1915. Mithilfe der systematischen Erfassung aller in diesem Zeitraum ausgestellten Werke von Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Wassily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian und Francis Picabia und der Analyse ihrer Ausstellungsaktivität, werden Strategien der Verbreitung früher abstrakter Malerei in Ausstellungen aufgedeckt. Die zentrale Rolle, die Kunstausstellungen bei ihrer Lancierung und Verbreitung einnahmen wird herausgestellt.

About the author

Christina Bartosch, Austrian art historian; she studied art history at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and University College London, and gained her doctorate at the University of Vienna in 2020. Her research specialities lie in the field of exhibition history and the history of abstraction. From 2017-2020 she was responsible for the scientific output of the FWF-funded research project she co-initiated, "Exhibitions of Modern European Painting 1905-15", Institute of Art History, University of Vienna. The Database of Modern Exhibitions (DoME) was created in the same context. She is the founder and director of the company "recollect", which plans and implements the maintenance and management of public and private collections. Since 2022, she has lived and worked in Hongkong.

Summary

The time around 1910 has entered art history as the moment when «abstraction was invented». However, where and when works of non-figurative art became present in the public eye has been afforded little attention to date. Exhibiting Abstraction is the first publication to be devoted entirely to the presentation of abstract art between 1908 and 1915. It uncovers strategies for the dissemination of early abstract painting in exhibitions with the aid of a register of exhibited works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Wassily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian and Francis Picabia shown to the public within this period, and an analysis of the artists’ exhibition activities. The key role played by art exhibitions in the works’ introduction and dissemination is highlighted.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Bartosch
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.11.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9783110755848
• ISBN: 978-3-11-075584-8
• No. of pages: 378
• Illustrations: 489 col. ill.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Abstrakte Kunst, einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Kunst: Grundlagen und Techniken, Wassily Kandinsky, Klassische Moderne, Piet Mondrian, art, Theory of art, The arts: general issues, ART000000 ART / General, ART006000 ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Art techniques & principles, ART015000 ART / History / General, ART016000 ART / Individual Artists / General, Abstract Art, Painting & paintings, ART020000 ART / Techniques / Painting, Individual artists, art monographs, Ausstellungsgeschichte, ART009000 ART / Criticism, ART050000 ART / Subjects & Themes / General, exhibition history, Kazimir Malevič, František Kupka