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ISBN: FLEXI: 9783954762453

Bookport, Distanz Publishing

October 2018

232 pp.

25.5x17 cm

60 colour illus., language: English / German

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£32,50
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Let's Talk Abstract

Time and again, lay people interested in art and professionals alike stand dumbfounded before abstract paintings. Following the invention of photog- raphy in the late 19th century, painting gradually liberated itself from a representational depiction of its surroundings and developed its own world of pure form and color. Non-objective works often have something hermetic and mysterious about them; they resist easy interpretation. This book attempts to open up the impenetrable veneer of abstract painting and bring it closer to the viewer. To this purpose, editor Carolin Scharpff-Striebich – collector and director of the Scharpff Collection – conducts trenchant discussions with sixteen leading figures in the international art establishment, each of whom selected an abstract painting to comment upon. These interviews, respec- tively based on a single work, enable the reader to experience the artistic idea expressed in the piece. It's not a matter of quick answers here, but rather about offering access.

Dialog partners:
Marion Ackermann, Richard Armstrong, Kirsty Bell, Caroline Bourgeois, Julia Friedrich, Walter Grasskamp, Hans-Jurgen Hafner, Pamela Joyner, Philipp Kaiser, Christiane Lange, Christian Malycha, Frances Morris, Hans-Joachim Muller, Mary Rozell, Wolfgang Ullrich, Helene Vandenberghe.