Abstraction (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) by
Description : This anthology reconsiders crucial aspects of abstraction's resurgence in contemporary art, exploring three equally significant strategies explored in current practice: formal abstraction, economic abstraction, and social abstraction. In the 1960s, movements as diverse as Latin American neo-concr...more..
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 by Matthew Affron
Description : In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the cente...more..
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Abstraction in Art and Nature (Dover Art Instruction) by Nathan Cabot Hale
Description : Stimulating, thought-provoking guide shows how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity, earth colors, many other elements are shown to be wellsprings o...more..
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Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks) by Wilhelm Worringer
Description : Wilhelm Worringer’s landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the noti...more..
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Journeys To Abstraction: 100 Paintings and Their Secrets Revealed by Sue St. John
Description : We don't have to know what a painting is if we know how it makes us feel. A fun, fascinating survey of abstract art, Journeys to Abstraction offers a behind-the-scenes look at how contemporary artists break free from literal depiction to rejoice in the pure expressive power of color, line ...more..
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Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction by David Lomas
Description : Just before her death in 1944 at the age of 81, the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint stipulated that her paintings were not to be publicly exhibited for 20 years. In fact, another 40-plus years were to pass before inklings of her vast oeuvre began to reach public consciousness, with the lan...more..
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Objects, Abstraction, Data Structures and Design: Using C++ by Elliot B. Koffman
Description : "It is a practical book with emphasis on real problems the programmers encounter daily."--Dr.Tim H. Lin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona"My overall impressions of this book are excellent. This book emphasizes the three areas I want: advanced C++, data structures and the S...more..
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Data Structures: Abstraction and Design Using Java by Elliot B. Koffman
Description : This book lays the foundation for programmers to build their skills. The focus is placed on how to implement effective programs using the JCL instead of producing mathematical proofs. The coverage is updated and streamlined to provide a more accessible approach to programming. They’ll be able to d...more..
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Abstraction and Utopia by Hilton Kramer
Description : In this e-Single, art critic Hilton Kramer explains how abstract art—painting and sculpture that makes no direct, immediately discernible reference to recognizable objects—was born of an alliance between modernist aesthetics and the occult doctrines of theosophy in the second decades of the twen...more..
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Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual (Technologies of Lived Abstraction) by Muriel Combes
Description : Gilbert Simondon (1924--1989), one of the most influential contemporary French philosophers, published only three works: L'individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (The individual and its physico-biological genesis, 1964) and L'individuation psychique et collective (Psychic and co...more..
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