Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

ISBN-13: 9781032339238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 236 str.

Herbert R. Hartel Jr.

Opis

This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson.

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth Century American Art: Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in American Modernist Painting

Chapter One: "Art Is as Broad as Space": Jonson’s Early Years in the West and Chicago

Chapter Two: "The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedy": New Mexico and Jonson’s Landscape Paintings and Compositions

Chapter Three: "These Are the Second Attack on the Abstract": the Thematic, Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929-1936

Chapter Four: "A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spirit": Jonson’s First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art and the Transcendental Painting Group

Chapter Five: "Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of Color–space–line and Design": Absolute Painting, 1938-1950

Chapter Six: "Causing the Surface to Come to Life": Jonson’s Late Career, 1950-1978

References

Index

O autorze

Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.