Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book 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"--
Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: The Color Grey -- 1. What Is Grey Painting? Tracing a Historical Trajectory -- 2. Visualizing Modern Life: Photography's Influence on Nineteenth-Century Grey Painting -- 3. Grey Abstraction: Form and Function in American Postwar Painting -- 4. Beyond Modernist Abstraction: The Social Significance of Grey Painting -- 5. Reinvention and Perpetuation: The Possibility of Grey for Gerhard Richter -- Epilogue: The Irresolution of Grey -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index