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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The color grey
- What Is grey painting? : tracing a historical trajectory
- Visualizing modern life : photography's influence on nineteenth-century grey painting
- Grey abstraction : form and function in American postwar painting
- Beyond modernist abstraction : the social significance of grey painting
- Reinvention and perpetuation : the possibility of grey for Gerhard Richter
- Epilogue: The irresolution of grey.