The Case for Abstraction

by The Art Assignment

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Speaker: Sarah Urist Green

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Additional resources:

Abstract art definition from the Tate

Abstract art resources from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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Cite this page as: The Art Assignment, "The Case for Abstraction," in Smarthistory, August 2, 2017, accessed October 19, 2017, https://smarthistory.org/case-for-abstraction/.