{"product_id":"64844-leon-polk-smith","title":"Leon Polk Smith","description":"From today’s perspective, Leon Polk Smith’s dynamic, geometric abstractions read like a \"missing link\" in art history. His work connects the European avant-garde, via the interface of Piet Mondrian’s painting, with American Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s. Smith's role as a pioneer of Hard-Edge painting with its flat, clearly defined color fields, and his shaped canvases, are in turn developments that later radiated from America to Europe. The liberation from the rectangular canvas allowed Smith to forge new relationships with the spatial context: it was particularly his unique Constellations, with which he gained much recognition between 1967 and 1975 and became known beyond America's borders. In addition to early abstract compositions and multi-part shaped canvases, this comprehensive volume also features collages, reliefs, and painted objects, and accompanies the new reception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLEON POLK SMITH (1906 – 1996) is one of the most important representatives of geometric abstraction. Born in Chickasha in what was then \"Indian Territory,\" which later became Oklahoma, his first paintings, created in the 1930s, are visually rooted in the indigenous culture of his surroundings. In 1944, he moved to New York, where he encountered the works of Mondrian and De Stijl.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44880580313352,"sku":"9783775754712","price":58.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775754712_25bc5ab4-13fe-47ab-811a-3f0b15b36f99.jpg?v=1744287479","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/64844-leon-polk-smith","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}