"THE RESPONSIVE EYE" par William C. SEITZ. Editions The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 1965. Imprimé aux USA. in-8 carré, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée illustrée en couleurs (état d'usage). 56 pages. Texte en anglais illustré de nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Museum of Modern Art de New York du 25 Février au 25 Avril 1965.

 

"Although an appropriate title had not yet been determined, The Responsive Eye was announced in November 1962. Besides showing recent works with a primarily visual emphasis, it was to have documented the development from Impressionism to what came later to be called "optical" art. So rapid was the subsequent proliferation of painting and construction employing perceptual effects however that demands of the present left no time nor gallery space for a retrospective view. Albers and Vasarely are the best-known masters of the perceptual abstraction, and they are represented with a few more works than other exhibitors. This attention does not imply, however, that they are the sole initiators of such a multiform and widely spread tendency. Many artists, from Balla, Malevich, and Mondrian to several of those here exhibited must also be seen as originators of some aspect of perceptualism…" William C. Seitz.

 

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