Mark Tobey: Threading Light, Hardcover - Debra Bricker Balken
Accompanying a major retrospective, this long-overdue survey establishes Mark Tobey as a pioneering champion of abstraction in America. One of the foremost American artists to emerge from the 1940s, a decade that saw the rise of Abstract Expressionism, Tobey (1890-1976) is now recognized as a vanguard figure whose work anticipated the formal innovations of New York School artists such as Jackson Pollock.Tobey's unique form of abstraction was the synthesis of his living both in Seattle and New York, his extensive trips to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kyoto, and Europe, and his conversion to the Baha'i faith. The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Mark Tobey in forty years, this book traces the evolution of this artist's groundbreaking style and his significant yet under-recognized contributions to abstraction and midcentury American modernism.