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The vertical line: observation and abstraction in contemporary painting

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A book by British abstract stripe artist Harry MC, examining stripe painting as a sustained working method rather than a visual style. Written from long studio practice and fieldwork in Provence, it describes how light, architecture, and landscape generate natural divisions that are distilled into large-scale vertical stripe paintings in the Bath studio. The stripe is treated as a practical structure, a way of holding proportion, rhythm, value, and chromatic interval and a record of sustained looking rather than a catalogue or memoir.

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    [Bath, England]: Florence & Gertrude Editions, [2026]

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    • 1919501649
    • 9781919501642

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    "With fieldwork plates from the South of France--LUMA Arles, Carré d'Art, Château La Coste, Collection Lambert and MuCEM.""--Cover.

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