"Arguably the most intelligent and complete study of this subject ever published."

• Contents: 1. Process Issues: New Materials and Techniques; Color; Monochromatic Painting; "The Vanishing Base" 2. Internal Issues(Composition): Nonrelational Composition; Figure-Ground; The Hegemony of Shape; Systematic Order 3. External Issues(The Spectator): The Concept of Presence; Significance of Scale; Architecture and the Environment; Michael Fried's Theory of Theatricality; The Spectator's Experience 4. Theoretical Issues: Abstraction and the subversion of illusion; Reality and the Condition of Objecthood; The Concept of Reduction; "Boring" Art; Interest as a Value; Art or Non-art: the Relevance of Theories. Artists work that is included: Vladimir Tatlin, Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, David Smith, Anthony Caro, William Tucker, Mark di Suvero, John Chamberlain, Lee Bontecou, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Tony Smith, ROnald Bladen, Robert Murray, Larry Bell, John McCrackent, Craig Kauffman, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, David Novros, Jo Baer, Robert Ryman, and Robert Smithson

"Arguably the most intelligent and complete study of this subject ever published."

• Contents: 1. Process Issues: New Materials and Techniques; Color; Monochromatic Painting; "The Vanishing Base" 2. Internal Issues(Composition): Nonrelational Composition; Figure-Ground; The Hegemony of Shape; Systematic Order 3. External Issues(The Spectator): The Concept of Presence; Significance of Scale; Architecture and the Environment; Michael Fried's Theory of Theatricality; The Spectator's Experience 4. Theoretical Issues: Abstraction and the subversion of illusion; Reality and the Condition of Objecthood; The Concept of Reduction; "Boring" Art; Interest as a Value; Art or Non-art: the Relevance of Theories. Artists work that is included: Vladimir Tatlin, Jackson Pollock, Yves Klein, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, David Smith, Anthony Caro, William Tucker, Mark di Suvero, John Chamberlain, Lee Bontecou, Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Tony Smith, ROnald Bladen, Robert Murray, Larry Bell, John McCrackent, Craig Kauffman, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, David Novros, Jo Baer, Robert Ryman, and Robert Smithson