The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal, 1955-1970

by Roald Nasgaard, Michel Martin, Michel Martin

By the mid-1950s, young Montreal artists were turning their backs on the surrealist spontaneity of the Automatistes. Painting in Montreal paralleled the New York pattern of following the "hot" of abstract expression with the "cool" of post-painterly abstraction. But Montreal produced a late modernist practice markedly distinct and independent from New York's -- a movement known as the Plasticiens. Sumptuously illustrated, this volume features 75 paintings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09L77S4HD
• ISBN13: 9782550667421
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.5" x 10.2"