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Pictures of nothing : abstract art since Pollock
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Pictures of nothing : abstract art since Pollock

by Kirk Varnedoe

Based on a 2003 lecture series, this volume examines the history and symbolic language of abstract art. It provides a chronological analysis of the movement, challenging conventional distinctions between modernism, postmodernism, minimalism, and pop art.

Accession 7257 ISBN 9780691126784 Publisher Princeton University Press
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