"Pictures of Nothing" is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour of a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works.
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"Pictures of Nothing" is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour of a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 069112678X. The A. W. Mellon Lectures In The Fine Arts, 48; color photos and reproductions; Square 4to 9"-11" tall; 320 pages; 2006 Princeton University Press. Oversize square format HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and fresh in sharp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Feels and appears generally unread. No marks. NF/NF...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, Second Printing. Not price-clipped ($45.00 price intact). Published by Princeton University Press, 2006. Quarto. Gray cloth boards stamped in white with purple endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. 297 pages. ISBN: 9780691126784. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Fine in fine jacket. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III, preface by Adam Gopnik. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xvii + 297 pages, square 4to, silver cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2006). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Bollingen Series XXXV: 48.
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Fine in very good(+) jacket. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xvii, 297 pages. Square 4to, silver cloth, d.w. (lightly stained, small tear at rear). Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2006). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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VG (ex-museum copy w/ square black stamps to upper & lower textblocks. black scuff to upper board edge. dustjacket has light wear, small foxing or coffee-like spot to front cover) Grey cloth over boards; White illus. dj.; 297 pp.; approx. 250 color and bw figures. Remains a nice, sharp and bright copy. "48th volume of The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Number XXXV in the Bollingen Series; Includes foreword by Earl A. Powell III and preface by Adam Gopnik; Covers minimialism, post-minimalism, satire, irony, and abstract art, and abstract art in the present day. "With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop. The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour through a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works." (dj).
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Fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Princeton. 2006. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 069112678x. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III. Preface by Adam Gopnik. Winner of the 2006 AAP Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Arts and Art History. 304 pages. hardcover. keywords: Abstract Art. FROM THE PUBLISHER-What is abstract art good for? What's the use-for us as individuals, or for any society-of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves? ' In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and as the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history. He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction-showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop. inventory #36093.