Toward a Grammar of Abstraction

Modernity, Wittgenstein, and the Paintings of Jackson Pollock Robert Steiner

Publish Date: 10/21/1992
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8
Page Count: 80 pages
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-00866-0
Series Name: Literature and Philosophy

Toward a Grammar of Abstraction takes as its point of departure three features of modern art reading: the practice of translating the visual into institutional language, the vocabulary of representation in relation to abstract art, and the prevalence of totality as a model of art-historical knowledge.

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