Download or read book Toward a Grammar of Abstraction written by Robert Steiner and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Grammar of Abstraction takes as its point of departure three features of modern art reading: the practice of translating the visual into institutional language, the vocabulary of representation in relation to abstract art, and the prevalence of totality as a model of art-historical knowledge.