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- ISBN 9780300270150
- Publication Date: 26 May 2026
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book, published ahead of an exhibition, is devoted to the birth of new conceptions, of a new approach to the evolution of abstraction in painting.
Since the late 1970s, abstraction has no longer consisted of the repetition of gestures viewed as “avant-garde” or embodying the history of the “newness” of the present age. With its new proposals, abstraction has, since the discovery of the Chauvet cave and its primitive murals in 1994, become an element enriching our pictorial heritage. Abstract painting re-reads, re-examines, composes and decomposes, transforms and reinvents using the figures on which its art is founded.
The book comprises 8 chapters, featuring text by curators, writers, and art historians. + interviews, documents, and archives from 1975 to 2022.
The artists presented include, among others: Günther Förg, Lawrence Carrol, Etel Adnan, Shirley Jaffe, Julie Mehretu, Philip Taaffe, Beatriz Milhazes, Eugène Leroy, Katherina Grosse, Liu Shangying, Jonathan Jasker, Lee Bae, Pierrette Bloch, Bernard Piffaretti, Marthe Wéry, Yves Zurstrassen and David Tremlett.
OLIVIER KAEPPELIN : Former director of visual arts in the French Ministry of Culture. Has designed exhibitions such as “La force de l’art”, the Triennale of art in France, and “Monumenta” at the Grand Palais in Paris. Has co-directed and directed International Biennales, in particular Blickachsen 9 in Bad Homburg and Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and Inhabiting the World in Busan (South Korea). From August 2011 to December 2017 he directed the Maeght Foundation in Saint Paul de Vence. He has written numerous essays on art and artists and books of poetry, and has designed monographic or collective exhibitions.
JEAN-LOUIS ANDRAL: Director of Picasso Museum, Antibes
BERNARD CEYSSON: Art historian, former director of Saint-Etienne museums and Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris
HENRI FRANCOIS DEBAILLEUX: Journalist, art critic
LORAND HEGYI: Art historian, former director of MUMOK, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
PHILIPPE PIGUET: Art critic and curator
RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN: Poet, art critic, former Senior Editor at Art in America
ALAIN VEINSTEIN: Writer, radio producer (France-Culture)
RICHARD LEYDIER: Editor in chief at Art Press
