On October 6, 1996, American Abstract Artists presented a panel discussion entitled Abstract / Meaning at the Museum of African Art in New York City. This journal was published to continue the discussion and exchange of ideas presented in the panel about the relationship between abstraction and meaning.American Abstract Artists Journal, Number 1, 1996, 34 pages
Journal No. 1 / AAA Journal: Abstract / Meaning
Contents
Up and going…, 1996, by Esphyr Slobodkina
Introduction
Statements from the Panel Members
Beauty is an Abstract Word, by David Row
Notes from a Panel Discussion on Abstraction and Meaning, by Susanna Tanger
Notes for Meaning/Abstract Panel, by Peter Pinchbeck
Abstract/Meaning: Notes for and from Panel, by Marthe Keller
Notes on Abstract/Meaning, by Power Boothe
Statements from the Audience
Abstract/Meaning, from the Audience, by John Goodyear
Abstract/Meaning, by Edwin Ruda
Pages from My Working Journal: Recent Questions to Myself, by Peter Stroud
Real Presence, A Search for Meaning in Abstract Art, by James Juszczyk
A Treatise on Abstraction, by Michael D. Hamilton
Statements from the Field
Notes in Preparation for an Exhibition and Lecture at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1992, by Mac Wells
What Abstraction Means to Me, by James Gross