Author: Peter Vergo
Title: Abstraction: Towards a new art : painting 1910-20
Description: Tate Gallery Publications, 1980 Paperback, 128 pages, ENG.,300 x 210 mm, in good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780905005072. ¶ Strictly speaking, the word abstract means to separate or withdraw something from something else. The term can be applied to art that is based on an object, figure or landscape, where forms have been simplified or schematised. It is also applied to art that uses forms, such as geometric shapes or gestural marks, which have no source at all in an external visual reality. Some artists of this ?pure? abstraction have preferred terms such as concrete art or non-objective art, but in practice the word abstract is used across the board and the distinction between the two is not always obvious. Abstract art is often seen as carrying a moral dimension, in that it can be seen to stand for virtues such as order, purity, simplicity and spirituality. Since the early 1900s, abstract art has formed a central stream of modern art.

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