As they view it, the history of abstract and nonobjective art in the 20th century is in many ways related to the evolution of color theory.
The people who run things there only like what I term modern nonobjective art.
The Russians invented nonobjective art, and Archipenko was at the forefront of these activities in the early decades of the last century.
But abstraction has also come to mean something completely divorced from an external starting point - what purists would call nonobjective art.
She was soon pressing Guggenheim to collect nonobjective art, a style without recognizable figures or objects that she followed in her own work.
Besides, a discussion of nonobjective art that does not take into account its mystical underpinnings is at best incomplete.
Mr. Lowy says in his introduction that her mission was to convert the savages of the New World to nonobjective art.
How come nonobjective art is still largely anathema to the general public?
Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are loosely related terms.
"It is from zero, in zero, that the true movement of being begins," he wrote in one of many treatises on nonobjective art.