Abstract Critical

abstract critical: Notes

Seeing Duchamp as Sculpture

From William Tucker, The Language of Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, 1974: “Duchamp, Tatlin, Rietvald and others, whatever their own beliefs as to the significance of …

Seeing Duchamp as Sculpture

From William Tucker, The Language of Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, 1974: “Duchamp, Tatlin, Rietvald and others, whatever their own beliefs as to the significance of …

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Words in Paintings: Paintings into Words

Charles Harrison on the origins of Conceptual Art: “One of the reasons, I think, for the crisis that could produce Conceptual art, the crisis of …

Words in Paintings: Paintings into Words

Charles Harrison on the origins of Conceptual Art: “One of the reasons, I think, for the crisis that could produce Conceptual art, the crisis of …

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Tess Jaray: Mapping the Unseeable

The following is extracted from the catalogue essay to Tess Jaray: Mapping the Unseeable. The exhibition opens at the Piper Gallery on the 9th of …

Tess Jaray: Mapping the Unseeable

The following is extracted from the catalogue essay to Tess Jaray: Mapping the Unseeable. The exhibition opens at the Piper Gallery on the 9th of …

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John Panting: Sculpture

Sculptures by Jackson Pollock have recently been on show in New York. Some contain clear correspondences with the webs of his paintings but it is …

John Panting: Sculpture

Sculptures by Jackson Pollock have recently been on show in New York. Some contain clear correspondences with the webs of his paintings but it is …

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abstract critical: Articles

What’s Abstract about Art

I have begun recently to think that the terms ‘abstract’ and ‘visual’ are often transposable. This rather makes one or the other of either ‘abstract …
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Wyatt Kahn at the Hannah Barry Gallery

Somewhere near the centre of Wyatt Kahn’s paintings is a contradiction, or an ambiguity. On the one hand in their large-scale, abstraction and formal invention …
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Eric Bainbridge: Steel Sculptures

In Britain we’re not quite sure what to make of beauty, and for puritans, beauty takes on a noxious quality; beauty is the beast that …
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abstract critical: Discussions

Abstract critical aims to consider a range of issues around abstract art. However perhaps above all we want to take seriously the formal, structural and …

Space and structure in Abstract Art

Abstract critical aims to consider a range of issues around abstract art. However perhaps above all we want to take seriously the formal, structural and …

Space and structure in Abstract Art

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Articles (5)

Gary Wragg: Positive Provisional 10 What Paint Does 34 Alan Gouk on his painting 2 The Screen and the Workshop: Robert Holyhead and Geoffrey Rigden 0 Clare Price: New Paintings 5

Notes (8)

Gary Wragg on Joan Mitchell 1 Robin Greenwood compares Matisse’s The Snail and Memories of Oceania 0 Sam Cornish on space in Francis Davison’s collages 0 Alan Gouk compares Mondrian and Nicholson 0 Alan Gouk on Matisse 0 David Sweet on Fiona Rae 0 Frank Stella’s Working Space 0 John Golding: Working Space / Space Through Light 1

The grid has been part of abstract art since the beginnings of abstraction at the opening of the twentieth century. Its ubiquity is such that …

Grids

The grid has been part of abstract art since the beginnings of abstraction at the opening of the twentieth century. Its ubiquity is such that …

Grids

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Articles (5)

Some thoughts on Grids 15 Mondrian // Nicholson: In Parallel 4 Mike Meiré: Economy of Attention 0 Natalie Dower: Line of Enquiry 3 The Viewer and The Grid 13

Notes (6)

David Sylvester on Mondrian 0 Rosalind Krauss on Grids 0 Grid as Cliché 0 Robert Linsley on Grids 0 ‘I paint with my back to the world’, Agnes Martin 2 Peter Halley 3