Discrepant Abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange. It includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic purity. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in twentieth-century art, this book alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in wide-ranging international contexts.

Impure, imperfect, and incomplete, the version of abstraction that emerges from this global journey - from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States - shows how the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized, from abstract expressionism onwards, by creative discrepancies that arise when disparate visual languages are brought into dialogue.

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Annotating Art's Histories

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Onsite

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REF.MEK
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English

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Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

232

ISBN / ISSN

026263337X

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

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To Avoid the Inscrutable: Abstract Expresssionism and the 'Oriental Mode' - Stanley ABE, 阿部賢次

Abstraction and Modern Chinese Art - David CLARKE, 祈大衛

Rethinking Calligraphic Modernism - Iftikhar DADI

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Discrepant Abstraction