White Cube Published a New Monograph on Legendary Abstract Artist Al Held

American artist Al Held once said "the best abstract painting transforms its formal qualities into metaphors for truths unavailable to direct perception." As a pioneer of the Hard-edge movement, Held aimed to simplify complex phenomena to its constituent elements -- color, line and form. Following the recent Al Held: The Sixties exhibition at White Cube in London, the gallery published a new monograph covering 50 years of his iconic career. Starting with Held's early Pigment series of the late-1...