Meyer Schapiro : art history as an exercise in thinking

The three short essays which are the stuff of L’Art abstrait, republished by Carré as a homage to the American art historian and philosopher who recently died, form a characteristic digest of the writings of this latter. La Nature de l’art abstrait (1937), La Peinture abstraite aujourd’hui (1957) and De l’humanité de la peinture abstraite (1960) reveal, in a dense way, the aesthetic concepts of Meyer Schapiro […] Read more in the PDF facsimil