Tomma Abts

Author: James Rondeau; Lizzie Carey-Thomas; Kate Nesin; Juliane Rebentisch
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  • : $64.99 NZD
  • : 9780300233872
  • : Yale University Press
  • : Yale University Press
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  • : June 2018
  • : 1.5 Centimeters X 22.9 Centimeters X 34.3 Centimeters
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  • : James Rondeau; Lizzie Carey-Thomas; Kate Nesin; Juliane Rebentisch
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780300233872
9780300233872

Description

Examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts's painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys basic formal elements such as arcs, circles, planes, and stripes to create powerful works that are at once subtle and eccentric. This extraordinary book, designed in collaboration with the artist herself, is a substantial and deeply insightful treatment of her career to date and features sixty works made over the past decade. Essays not only contextualize Abts's work within an art-historical framework of methods, process, and style, but also examine her paintings' philosophical and psychological dimensions and their embodiment of a creative process that transcends the specifics of any particular work.