What is Level of Abstraction? | Words for Moving Between Specifics and Commonalities

The level of abstraction is the degree to which a concept is defined and narrowed down. The fewer conditions required to ...

Abstraction: Turning Dots into Lines — Mindset, 2 Books, and Training —

IntroductionThis is the second installment in a series where I select and introduce three past articles. This time, I am ...
Hyperallergic

Artists Find Common Ground in Language of Abstraction

Installation view of ‘Territory of Abstraction’ at Pentimenti Gallery (photo by Joanne Mattera) PHILADELPHIA — Abstraction is, by its very nature, an exercise in reduction, in simplifying the elements ...
Artforum

“Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925”

FEW EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF ART attract so many origin myths as the history of abstraction. As a plotline, it’s hard to beat—an intoxicating, utopian rhetoric of a revolutionary new beginning ...
Hyperallergic

Can Abstraction Help Us Understand the Value of Black Lives?

An empty house in St. Louis (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) ST. LOUIS — Several months ago, I made the commitment to be away from New York City, my home and native ...
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 : how a radical idea changed modern art / [organized by] Leah Dickerman ; with contributions by Matthew Affron [and others]

"Organized by Leah Dickerman, Curator, with Masha Chlenova, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture"--Page 375. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, ...