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Monochrome : darkness and light in contemporary art /

"The monochrome -- a single colour of paint applied over the entirety of a canvas -- remains one of the more contentious modernist artistic inventions. But whilst the manufacture of these 'pictures of nothing' was ostensibly straightforward, their subsequent theorisation has been anyt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staff, Craig G., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Colección:International library of modern and contemporary art ; 20.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: What images are not
  • Part I, Darkness: 1. Fathoming darkness: arrested vision and monochromacity in the work of Balka, Whiteread and Paterson
  • 2. Accumulating discourses: trajectories, contingencies and mutations
  • 3. Complicating presence, reenacting history.
  • Part II, Of light: 4. Turner, Wheeler and Rauschenberg: materialising light
  • 5. Lightening the idealistic load: the dumb, the imprecise and the almost
  • 6. The evacuation of imagery: monochromacity and the work of nothing.