Research Catalog

Title

Raymond Jonson and the spiritual in modernist and abstract painting / Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.

Author

Hartel, Herbert R., Jr

Publication

• New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xiv, 182 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson ever published. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth century who demonstrates the richness and diversity of an under-appreciated period in the history of American art. Visualizing the spiritual was one of the fundamental goals of early abstract painting in the years before and during World War I. Artists turned to alternative spirituality, the occult, and mysticism, believing that the pure use of line, shape, color, light, and texture could convey spiritual insights. Jonson was steadfastly dedicated to this goal for most of his career, and he always believed that modernist and abstract styles were the most effective and compelling means of achieving it.

Series Statement

Routledge research in art history

Uniform Title

Routledge research in art history

Subject

• Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982 > Criticism and interpretation
• Jonson, Raymond, 1891-1982
• Spiritualism in art
• Painting, Abstract > United States
• Painting, Abstract
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-176) and index.

ISBN

• 113871254X
• 9781138712546
• 97813152000955 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1008875415
• SCSB-9153167

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library