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Black Paintings
Eclissi sul Modernismo
[Italian Text]
Edited By R. Venturi 
January 2009
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9788837055226
92 Pages, 25 Color Plates
$29.50 Paper Original
Monochrome paintings are images without representation. Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt, for example, developed an extreme process of negation: no content except the object itself; no drawing, no composition, no internal rapport, no depth, no dramatic relationship between figure and background, no plasticity and no decoration. Explore the degree zero of painting, colour and matter, in itself and for itself; and its great physical and conceptual density based on symbols, spiritualism and utopia.
