Discrepant Abstraction
For anyone who thinks the question of abstract art is settled, this book will come as a surprise. Discrepant abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange. It includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic purity. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in twentieth-century art, this second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series alters our understanding of abstract...
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How the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized by creative discrepancies—a cross-cultural voyage stretching from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States.
Abstract expressionism and third world art : a post-colonial approach to 'American' art30To avoid the inscrutable : abstract expressionism and the 'Oriental mode'52Abstraction and modern Chinese art74Rethinking calligraphic modernism94Abstraction as infection and cure116Autobiography of an (ex)coloured surface : monochrome and liminality134'It's not enough to say "Black is beautiful" ' : abstraction at the Whitney, 1969-1974154Black Atlantic abstraction : Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling182Quantum ghosts : an interview with Wilson Harris206
