The Shape of Seeing: The Genesis of Abstraction - Softcover

Raj, Ritu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1969063718 ISBN 13: 9781969063718

Verlag: American Real Publishing, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In 2020, in a silent house, Ritu Raj took a length of ordinary string from a kitchen drawer, dipped it in pigment, and pulled it across a canvas. It slipped, fell, and left a trace he could never have planned.

"That small accident became the beginning of the organic movement paintings: an experiment gone awry, and precisely because of that, true."

The Shape of Seeing: The Genesis of Abstraction traces the way of looking behind that moment, from a childhood in New Delhi among India's modernist painters, as the son of the critic K.B. Goel and a professor of English literature, to mathematics, decades of building companies, and a studio in the Arizona desert. Part memoir and part meditation, it explores how a painting takes form, and how making it changes the person who sees.

Across an Introduction, twenty chapters and an Epilogue, Raj reflects on color, geometry, shadow, silence, time, and the body's part in perception. The canvas becomes a place where memory enters material, emotion finds structure, and control turns out to be "not mastery, but conversation."

For painters, collectors, and anyone who has stood before an abstract work and felt something they could not name, the book offers a personal path into abstraction, and language for their own encounter. "Perhaps abstraction is simply what happens when words run out."

The paintings named in the book, Migration, DNA on Fire, Red Space, Horizons as Possibility and others, can be seen on the author's website.

Its companion, The Unalgorithmic Self, carries the same inquiry into human identity in the age of artificial intelligence.

Art never ends. It only changes form.

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Ritu Raj is an abstract painter, author and entrepreneur. He works from RituStudio in Phoenix, Arizona, where his signature technique, Organic Movement, lets thread take the place of the brush and makes gravity a collaborator. He has made more than 250 paintings and is represented by Jarrow & Goodman in Los Angeles. Mathematics and computer science gave him another grammar for the same question, and three decades of founding and building companies, among them Avasta, SideCar, Wag Hotels and Diamond Foundry, tested it at scale. The painting, the systems and ArtGraph, his language for abstract art, are one inquiry. He is the author of The Shape of Seeing, on how abstraction arrives, and The Unalgorithmic Self, a philosophical inquiry into what AI cannot reach.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: American Real Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1969063718
• ISBN 13: 9781969063718
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 118
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