Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the Chicago ...
FEW EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF ART attract so many origin myths as the history of abstraction. As a plotline, it’s hard to beat—an intoxicating, utopian rhetoric of a revolutionary new beginning ...