The Simple Truth

The Monochrome in Modern Art

Simon Morley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2020
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-231-0 (ISBN)

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A unique, global perspective of the monochrome in modern art.

The monochrome – a single-colour work of art – is highly ambiguous. For some it epitomizes purity, and is art reduced to its essence. For others it is just a stunt, the emperor’s new clothes. Why are monochromes so admired, yet such an easy target of scorn? In this illuminating book Simon Morley unpacks the meanings of the monochrome as it developed internationally over the twentieth century to today. In doing so he explores more general questions such as how artists have understood what they make, how critics variously interpret it and how art is encountered by viewers.

Simon Morley is Assistant Professor at Dankook University, Korea. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art (2003) and Seven Keys to Modern Art (2019).

1 Introductions
2 Setting
3 Reception
4 Colour
5 Ground
6 Spiritual
7 Indefinable
8 Nothingness
9 Experiential
10 Zen
11 Material
12 Format
13 Sign
14 Idea
15 Allegorical
16 Expanded Field
17 East-Asia
18 Contemporary
19 Conclusion

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.05.2020
Zusatzinfo	10 illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 208 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-78914-231-8 / 1789142318
ISBN-13	978-1-78914-231-0 / 9781789142310
Zustand	Neuware