Tomma Abts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300233872)

Examines both the art-historical framework of Tomma Abts's painting as well as its deep philosophical and psychological dimensions

With a rigorous approach and self-imposed limitations to both scale and composition, Tomma Abts (b. 1967) has reinvigorated painterly abstraction and its relevance within contemporary art. Using a fixed canvas size and a vertical format, Abts deploys basic formal elements such as arcs, circles, planes, and stripes to create powerful works that are at once subtle and eccentric. This extraordinary book, designed in collaboration with the artist herself, is a substantial and deeply insightful treatment of her career to date and features sixty works made over the past decade. Essays not only contextualize Abts's work within an art-historical framework of methods, process, and style, but also examine her paintings' philosophical and psychological dimensions and their embodiment of a creative process that transcends the specifics of any particular work.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition Schedule:

Serpentine Galleries, London
(06/06/18-09/09/18)

Art Institute of Chicago
(10/18/18-02/17/19)

Author: James Rondeau
ISBN-10: 0300233876
ISBN-13: 9780300233872
Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2018
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 13.60h x 9.90w x 0.80d