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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

199948mMovieDocumentary

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style…

DirectorMichael Blackwood
WriterSasha Newman
ProducersMichael Blackwood·Christhart Burgmann

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Cast · Directed by Michael Blackwood

HF
Helmut Federle
Himself
GF
Günther Förg
Himself
JL
Jonathan Lasker
Himself
RM
Robert Mangold
Himself
BM
Brice Marden
Himself
GR
Gerhard Richter
Himself
RS
Richard Serra
Himself
PT
Philip Taaffe
Himself
GU
Günter Umberg
Himself

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