The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting

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Changing how we look at and think about the color grey

Why did many of the twentieth century's best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting?

By analyzing an array...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:151790045X

ISBN13:9781517900458

Release Date:January 2018

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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