Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Raymond Jonson and Twentieth Century American Art:
Reconsidering the Canonical in American Art History and the Spiritual in
American Modernist Painting
Chapter One: "Art Is as Broad as Space": Jonson's Early Years in the West
and Chicago
Chapter Two: "The Land of Sunshine and Color and Tragedy": New Mexico and
Jonson's Landscape Paintings and Compositions
Chapter Three: "These Are the Second Attack on the Abstract": the Thematic,
Conceptual Series Paintings of 1929-1936
Chapter Four: "A More Intense Participation in the Life of the Spirit":
Jonson's First Totally Abstract Paintings, His Theories of Art and the
Transcendental Painting Group
Chapter Five: "Fast Arriving and Spontaneous Combustions of
Color-space-line and Design": Absolute Painting, 1938-1950
Chapter Six: "Causing the Surface to Come to Life": Jonson's Late Career,
1950-1978
References
Index
