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Mondrian: On the Humanity of Abstract Painting

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In "On the Humanity of Abstract Painting," Schapiro systematically dismantles the criticism of abstraction as cold, detached, and inartistic. Instead, he proves that this art form is capable of great expressive and intellectual power, endowed with lyricism and grace. He proposes new ways of viewing and thinking about abstraction, in the end establishes it as "an obvious and necessary enrichment of our lives."
With " Order and Randomness in Abstract Painting," Schapiro analyses many of the painter's most important works, from The Red Mill to Broadway Boogie-Woogie. He articulates the subtleties of Mondrian's formal strategies and his innate lyricism. He proceeds to map Mondrian's relation to his predecessors, and shows that this archetypal abstractionist was in fact indebted to the formal compositional strategies of such leading late nineteenth century artists as Degas, Monet, Seurat, and Toulouse-Lautrec.

80 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1995

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"A dimensão humana da arte reside também no artista, e não simplesmente naquilo que ele representa, embora o objeto representado possa se oferecer como a ocasião apropriada para a mais completa realização da sua arte." Schapiro é um excelente ensaísta. Em um livro muito, muito curto, por meio de apenas dois textos, ele analisa e defende a obra de Mondrian numa linguagem bem inteligível. Tenho bastante vontade de ler seus ensaios a respeito do impressionismo (pelo que sei o estilo que ele mais se interessa e domina teoricamente), mas a edição da Cosac é caríssima nos sebos e já está esgotada nas livrarias. Uma pena.
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