An edition of The truth is always grey
(2018)
The truth is always grey
a history of modernist painting
by Frances Guerin
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"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"--
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Truth Is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Painting
2018, University of Minnesota Press
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The color grey
What Is grey painting? : tracing a historical trajectory
Visualizing modern life : photography's influence on nineteenth-century grey painting
Grey abstraction : form and function in American postwar painting
Beyond modernist abstraction : the social significance of grey painting
Reinvention and perpetuation : the possibility of grey for Gerhard Richter
Epilogue: The irresolution of grey.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-323) and index.
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