{"product_id":"2026100009272-secondhand-working-space","title":"Working Space","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: rep.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\n\nStella 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49276126986459,"sku":"2026100009272-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/95ba3eb0-fcf2-48ba-8b32-4acc130e3e6a.png?v=1789092682","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009272-secondhand-working-space","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}