The Painted Word
1975 · 106 pages
Modern painting had become an illustration of theory, Wolfe argued, invisible without the words. He named the three critics who ruled taste in New York, and the art world came after him howling.
★ 5.1
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
1910 · 96 pages
Color and line act on the soul directly, Kandinsky argues, the way music does, with nothing depicted. He handed abstract painting its justification, and a generation of European artists walked away from representation.
★ 6.5