ISBN10: 0674959612, ISBN13: 9780674959613, [publisher: Harvard University Press, United States, Cambridge, Mass] Softcover Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the worlds most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other artists work, as well as his own, in this handsomely illustrated volume. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time. The artists who followed Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian searched for new directions to advance their work from beneath the shadow of these great painters. Caravaggio pointed the way. So today, Stella believes, the successors to Picasso, Kandinsky, and Pollock must seek a pictorial space as potent as the one Caravaggio developed at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Stella sees Caravaggio as the pivot on whom painting turns, his consummate illusionism prompting the advance of a more flexible, more real space that allows painting to move and breathe, to suggest extension and unrestricted motion. Following Caravaggio, Rubens broad vision of fullness and active volume gave painting a momentum that helped propel it into the nineteenth century, where it came to rest in the genius of Gericault and Manet, themselves the precursors of modern painting. Unfortunately, both contemporary abstract art and figurative painting have become trapped by ...

ISBN10: 0674959612, ISBN13: 9780674959613, [publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA/London, England] Softcover First Edition Stella gives his take on other artists, from Caravaggio to Stella's own work.55 plates, most color. Glossy wraps have very minor wear at corners, otherwise fine. 167 pages, 9" x 11" International orders may require extra postage.
[Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
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