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- ISBN 9781789142310
- Dimensions: 156 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The monochrome – a single-colour work of art – is highly ambiguous. For some it epitomizes purity, and is art reduced to its essence. For others it is just a stunt, the emperor’s new clothes. Why are monochromes so admired, yet such an easy target of scorn? In this illuminating book Simon Morley unpacks the meanings of the monochrome as it developed internationally over the twentieth century to today. In doing so he explores more general questions such as how artists have understood what they make, how critics variously interpret it and how art is encountered by viewers.
Simon Morley is Assistant Professor at Dankook University, Korea. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art (2003) and Seven Keys to Modern Art (2019).
