Research Catalog

Title

Adventures of the black square : abstract art and society 1915-2015 / edited by Iwona Blazwick with Sophie McKinlay, Magnus af Petersens and Candy Stobbs.

Publication

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blazwick, Iwona
• McKinlay, Sophie
• Petersens, Magnus af
• Stobbs, Candy
• Whitechapel Art Gallery, host institution.

Description

287 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

Exploring how the universal visual language of geometric abstraction was influenced by different societies, this volume also demonstrates how the movement's revolutionary aesthetic continues to impact culture around the globe. It traces a century of abstract art from 1915 to the present day, celebrating the accomplishments of both men and women and includes sculpture, film, photography and painting. Organised around four distinct themes - communication, architectonics, utopia and everyday life - the book presents a chronological survey from Russia to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central America, Africa, South America, and the US. Each of the 100 works is featured in double-page spreads with brief artist biographies. Essays by Tanya Barson, Briony Fer, Tom McDonough, and Joshua Jiang, contextualize the various geographic and aesthetic stages of the development of geometric abstraction.

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Art, Abstract > Exhibitions
• Geometrical constructions in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 15 January - 6 April 2015"--Colophon.
• Artists: Alexander Abaza, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Francis Alÿs, Armando Andrade Tudela, Carl Andre, Nazgol Ansarinia, Rasheed Araeen, Doug Ashford, Chant Avedissian, Dmitri Baltermants, Lewis Baltz, Geraldo de Barros, David Batchelor, Max Bill, Kamal Boullata, KP Brehmer, Daniel Buren, Andrea Büttner, André Cadere, Ilya Chashnik, Iakov Chernikov, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lygia Clark, Horacio Coppola, Waldemar Cordeiro, Keith Coventry, Angela de la Cruz, Thea Djordjadze, Theo van Doesburg, Adrian Esparza, Emmanuil Evzerekhin, Thomaz Farkas, Dan Flavin, Andrea Fraser, Gasper Gasparian, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Zvi Goldstein, Peter Halley, Eva Hesse, Jenny Holzer, Saba Innab, Clay Ketter, Gunilla Klingberg, Ivan Kliun, Gustav Klutsis, Katarzyna Kobro, Běla Kolářová, Judith Lauand, Fernand Léger, Klara Lidén, El Lissitzky, Liu Wei, Josiah McElheny, Tomás Maldonado, Kazimir Malevich, Werner Mantz, Dóra Maurer, Cildo Meireles, Nasreen Mohamedi, László Moholy-Nagy, Andrei Monastyrski, Piet Mondrian, Sarah Morris, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Blinky Palermo, Karthik Pandian, Lygia Pape, Anna Parkina, Adam Pendleton, Amalia Pica, Lyubov Popova, Dmitri Prigov, Nikolai Nikolaevich Punin, R.H. Quaytman, Tobias Rehberger, Lis Rhodes, Àngels Ribé, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Karl Peter Röhl, Willem de Rooij, Francesco Lo Savio, Oskar Schlemmer, Ivan Serpa, Arkady Shaikhet, Hassan Sharif, Melanie Smith, Antonina Sofronova, Hannah Starkey, Jeffrey Steele, Władysław Strzemiński, Nikolai Suetin, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Vladimir Tatlin, Rosemarie Trockel, Sergei Vasin, Kostis Velonis, Zhao Yao, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, and Facundo de Zuviría.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Adventures of the black square : abstract art and society 1915-2015 / Iwona Blazwick -- Utopia / Iwona Blazwick -- Architectonics / Iwona Blazwick and Magnus af Petersens -- Communication / Iwona Blazwick -- The everyday / Iwona Blazwick and Magnus af Petersens -- The geometric page / Sophie McKinlay -- Abstraction at war with itself / Briony Fer -- "Crisp images in a humid environment" / Tanya Barson -- The mercurial monochrome, or the nihilation of geometric abstraction / Tom McDonough -- Conformed bodies / Jiang Jiehong.

Call Number

JQF 15-978

ISBN

• 9783791354446 (Trade edition)
• 3791354442 (hbk.)
• 9783791365954 (hardback Museum edition)
• 3791365959 (hardback Museum edition)

OCLC

898156094

Title

Adventures of the black square : abstract art and society 1915-2015 / edited by Iwona Blazwick with Sophie McKinlay, Magnus af Petersens and Candy Stobbs.

Publisher

Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Blazwick, Iwona, editor.

McKinlay, Sophie, editor.

Petersens, Magnus af, editor.

Stobbs, Candy, editor.

Whitechapel Art Gallery, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 15-978