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Resisting Abstraction presents a new understanding of Robert Delaunay's achievement that goes beyond the stylistic and iconographic approaches that are typical of the literature to now. It does so by offering truly original readings of Delaunay's early work (during the years of his most important production) that give us new insights into how to read them and that allow Hughes to situate Delaunay's work in relation to theories of vision and historical events that reveal the depth and intelligence of Delaunay's work in those years. --Charles Palermo, College of William and Mary

For over a century, Robert Delaunay's modernist masterpiece, First Disk (1913), has defied understanding by all comers. Now in a brilliantly economical tour de force of historical and critical recreation, Gordon Hughes has solved the mystery. Resisting Abstraction is a wonderful book, one that will instantly take its place on a short shelf of indispensable studies of the great years of early twentieth-century art. --Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University

For over a century, Robert Delaunay s modernist masterpiece, First Disk (1913), has defied understanding by all comers. Now in a brilliantly economical tour de force of historical and critical recreation, Gordon Hughes has solved the mystery. Resisting Abstraction is a wonderful book, one that will instantly take its place on a short shelf of indispensable studies of the great years of early twentieth-century art. --Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University

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Gordon Hughes is the Mellon Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University, the editor of Nothing But the Clouds Unchanged: Artists in World War One, and coeditor of October Files: Richard Serra.

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