Working Space
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: rep.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean for a painting to inhabit space rather than merely depict it? In Working Space, the acclaimed American abstract artist Frank Stella confronts this fundamental question head-on, presenting a bold and intellectually rigorous argument for the future of abstract painting rooted in a sweeping survey of art history. Based on his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University, the book charts a course from the spatial achievements of Caravaggio and the great Baroque masters through Cubism and beyond, arguing that abstraction must reclaim the illusionistic, three-dimensional space that figurative painting once commanded. Stella writes with the authority of a practitioner rather than a theorist, and his prose carries the urgent conviction of an artist wrestling with the very nature of his medium. Working Space stands as a landmark contribution to the discourse on modern and abstract art — a rare document in which a major creative force articulates, in his own voice, the ambitions and anxieties driving his work. It is a text that challenges the reader to look again, and to ask whether the most radical possibilities of painting have yet to be fully realised.
Author: Frank Stella
Format: Paperback
Genre: The arts
Edition: rep.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean for a painting to inhabit space rather than merely depict it? In Working Space, the acclaimed American abstract artist Frank Stella confronts this fundamental question head-on, presenting a bold and intellectually rigorous argument for the future of abstract painting rooted in a sweeping survey of art history. Based on his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University, the book charts a course from the spatial achievements of Caravaggio and the great Baroque masters through Cubism and beyond, arguing that abstraction must reclaim the illusionistic, three-dimensional space that figurative painting once commanded. Stella writes with the authority of a practitioner rather than a theorist, and his prose carries the urgent conviction of an artist wrestling with the very nature of his medium. Working Space stands as a landmark contribution to the discourse on modern and abstract art — a rare document in which a major creative force articulates, in his own voice, the ambitions and anxieties driving his work. It is a text that challenges the reader to look again, and to ask whether the most radical possibilities of painting have yet to be fully realised.