The composition is alive with colour and movement – abstract forms in blue, green, chartreuse and white jostle up against one another inside the frame. From the centre, a blood-red line emerges, arcs ...

IN a recent number (NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 263) we took occasion to suggest that the usefulness of a school scientific society might still further be increased by calling in the assistance of ...

Think 20th century abstract art and the mind automatically conjures up images of Jackson Pollock's expressionist drip paintings or Mark Rothko's cool intensity. But the North wasn't the only America ...

With each passing year a new art fair surreptitiously emerges on the New York scene. Come early March, collectors and dealers find their calendars completely filled, balancing the newer fairs like ...

Can we speak of a geometric abstractionist tradition within postwar American art? In 1936, when Alfred Barr, the director of the then-new Museum of Modern Art, wrote that the two main strands of ...

THE scope of this book is more limited than its title indicates. The nine chapters deal respectively with preliminary ideas, trihedral angles, skew quadrilaterals, tetrahedra, transversals, oblique ...