How Abstract Art Represents the World: Pocket Art Museum Author: [UK] Stephanie Stryn Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

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Editor's Recommendation:

★The "Pocket Art Gallery" series to which this book belongs is a star book series of the internationally renowned art publisher Thames & Hudson. Since its launch, the global print run has exceeded 650,000 copies. Will Gompertz, the author of "150 Years of Modern Art", highly praised this book, and it is sincerely recommended by major European museums and bookstores such as the Tate Gallery in the UK.

★Gathering representative works of 73 innovative artists from the early 20th century to the present. Learn about abstract art that has a global influence and changed the face of contemporary art through artists and their works.

★Professional writing by contemporary art curators for art lovers, changing the initial impression of abstract art as "obscure and difficult to understand"

★90 pictures, small-format full-color printing, the best book to carry with you when visiting an exhibition.

Emerging from Western art movements such as Cubism and Expressionism, abstract art quickly became a global phenomenon, changing the face of modern and contemporary art.

This book unveils the mystery of abstract art, takes readers on a paper journey across the globe, and traces the development of abstract art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.

From Wassily Kandinsky and Emma Kunz to Zao Wou-Ki and Lana Bergum, the author explains the work of more than 70 innovative artists, making their artistic concepts and methods more accessible to readers, while fully demonstrating the diversity of artists around the world and the philosophical, political, and visual theories that have shaped this fundamental art form.

About the Author
Stephanie Stryn

Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Previously Curator of Exhibitions and Projects at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and has worked at Tate Liverpool and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

She has published extensively on modern and contemporary art, with a focus on artists working in painting.