The truth is always grey : a history of modernist painting /
Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art. What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art. What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey. |
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| Physical Description: | 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781517900441 1517900441 9781517900458 151790045X |