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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2015.
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| Series: | International library of modern and contemporary art ;
20. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
