Description: Totality by Michael Schreyach An original and ambitious approach to understanding the creative achievements of one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. Totality offers a deeply researched and thoughtful account of the art of Barnett Newman (1905–1970). While Newmans paintings are widely regarded as among the most significant statements of abstract expressionism—and emblematic of modernism at midcentury—they pose distinct challenges to formal description and historical evaluation. With this book, Michael Schreyach guides readers toward a transformed understanding of Newmans profound body of work. Through a sequence of close readings, Schreyach examines six key terms—symbol, surface, self-evidence, space, standpoint, and scale—that illuminate the meaning of Newmans claims for the "metaphysical" content of his art. Totality progresses from the meticulous analysis of the technical structure and visual appearance of specific works to critical and archivally documented arguments about Newmans intentions. The result is an altogether original interpretation of the artists enterprise, as surprising as it is nuanced. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "Michael Schreyachs Totality more than fulfills the ambition of its title. The author delivers attentive readings of individual works alongside precise accounts of the technical and formal problems that Barnett Newman relentlessly defined and refined through his art. How can paintings capacity to represent sensation, thought, and feeling--and not merely to cause it in a beholder--be expressed in abstract form? Schreyach offers us, for the first time, a total picture of Newmans visually powerful answers to such questions."--Jennifer Ashton, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago "I can only be enthusiastic about a text like this; it demands of its reader to think along with the writer and with Barnett Newman. Schreyachs scholarly apparatus is impeccable, yet the touch can be light, and always flowing, intriguing, surprising. Newman would have appreciated the number of rather startling conclusions that Schreyachs attention to Newmans own nuances produces."--Richard A. Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin Author Biography Michael Schreyach is Professor of Art History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Pollocks Modernism. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Symbol 2. Surface 3. Self-Evidence 4. Space 5. Standpoint 6. Scale Frequently Cited Sources Notes Picture Credits Index Details ISBN0520379519 Author Michael Schreyach Short Title Totality Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0520379519 ISBN-13 9780520379510 Format Hardcover Subtitle Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman DEWEY 759.13 Pages 296 Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Illustrations 22 b-w illustrations, 43 color illustrations NZ Release Date 2023-06-06 US Release Date 2023-06-06 Publication Date 2023-06-06 UK Release Date 2023-06-06 Publisher University of California Press Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-08-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143300999;
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