"A very important book in the modern art indusry" - Nicholas Drew
 
In his transfusion of both traditional and mordern art, Anthony Young the well-known Abstract artist demonstrate how paintings in it's highest form of simplicity and profound from all around the world have used abstract imagery to express social, cultural, and spiritual experience.
 
Anthony Young builds this fresh approach to art around  five inclusive themes: body, landscape, nature, architecture, and  patterns. In the process, this history develops a series of narratives that exceeds expectation. Each narrative is complemented by a number of featured abstract works, arranged in thought-provoking captions with that provide an in-depth analysis. This wide-ranging examination incorporates work from countries in the Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America, as well as Europe and North America, through artists ranging from Wu Guanzhong, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, to Hilma af Klint, and Odili Donald Odita. Breaking new ground, Anthony Young has forged a new history of this key art movement.