The Simple Truth
The Monochrome in Modern Art
Published on 16. November 2020
304 pages
978-1-78914-268-6 (ISBN)
Description
The monochrome - a single-colour work of art - is highly ambiguous. For some it epitomizes purity, and is art reduced to its essence. For others it is just a stunt, the emperor's new clothes. Why are monochromes so admired, yet such an easy target of scorn? In this illuminating book Simon Morley unpacks the meanings of the monochrome as it developed internationally over the twentieth century to today. In doing so he explores more general questions such as how artists have understood what they make, how critics variously interpret it and how art is encountered by viewers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
10 - AS AN 8 PAGE SIGNATURE COLOUR INSERT
File size
4,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-268-6 (9781789142686)
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11/2020
Reaktion Books
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Person
Simon Morley is Assistant Professor at Dankook University, Korea. He is the author of Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art (2003) and Seven Keys to Modern Art (2019).
