{"product_id":"the-truth-is-always-grey-frances-guerin-9781517900458","title":"The Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChanging how we look at and think about the color grey\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Why did many of the twentieth century's best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? \u003cp\u003eBy analyzing an array of modernist paintings, Guerin demonstrates that grey has a unique history and a legitimate identity as a color. She traces its use by painters as far back as medieval and Renaissance art, through Romanticism, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism to show how grey is the perfect color to address the questions asked by painting within art history and to articulate the relationship between painting and the historical world of industrial modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of exceptional erudition, breadth, and clarity, presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries as examples, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Is Always Grey\u003c\/i\u003e is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Guerin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 151790045X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517900458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2018","brand":"Frances Guerin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940064919807,"sku":"9781517900458","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4cf2bbf7-a9aa-44d8-906b-c07b1fdb9585.jpg?v=1681445082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-truth-is-always-grey-frances-guerin-9781517900458","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}