The Shape of Freedom by Ortrud Westheider
The Shape of Freedom by Ortrud Westheider
SKU: B9783791379487 • Barcode: 9783791379487

The Shape of Freedom

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  • Format: Hardback
  • Main subject: History of art
  • Genre / subject: History of art / art and design styles
  • Author: Ortrud Westheider
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

The Shape of Freedom by Ortrud Westheider is an illustrated art book for adult readers.

This book gives new insights into the flowering of radical abstraction after 1945, focussing on the creative interplay between painters in the wider orbit of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Following World War II, Western painting went in completely new directions. A young generation of artists turned their backs on the dominant styles of the interwar period: Instead of figurative representation or geometric abstraction, painters in the orbit of Abstract Expressionism in the US and Art Informel in Western Europe pursued a radically impulsive approach to form, colour, and material.

As an expression of individual freedom, the spontaneous artistic gesture gained symbolic significance. Large-scale colour-field compositions created a meditative space for ruminating the fundamental questions of human existence.

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