Publisher's Synopsis
Time and again, lay people interested in art and professionals alike stand dumbfounded before abstract paintings. Following the invention of photography in the late 19th century, painting gradually liberated itself from a representational depiction of its surroundings and developed its own world of pure form and colour. Non-objective works often have something hermetic and mysterious about them; they resist easy interpretation. This book opens up the impenetrable veneer of abstract painting and bring it closer to the viewer.
