📚 Abstract Art

Picture without object: Kandinsky’s argument, the De Stijl grids, and the New York schools that inherited it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject abstract art in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Kandinsky	Wassily Kandinsky	1947	54
	Chillida	Eduardo Chillida	1967	42
	Horst Antes	Horst Antes	1963	27
	Sonia Delaunay	Sonia Delaunay	1920	26
	Alberto Magnelli	Alberto Magnelli	1964	23
	Helen Frankenthaler	Helen Frankenthaler	1969	23
	Abstraktion und Einfühlung	Wilhelm Worringer	1908	22
	Henri Laurens	Henri Laurens	1946	17
	Fiona Rae	Fiona Rae	1990	17
	Fritz Winter	Fritz Winter	1951	13
	Victor Vasarely	Vasarely, Victor	1969	13
	Gunter Damisch	Gunter Damisch	1984	13
	Rolf-Gunter Dienst	Rolf-Gunter Dienst	1964	12
	Layman's guide to modern art	Mary Chalmers Rathbun	1949	11
	Millares	Manolo Millares	1962	11
	Manuel Rivera	Manuel Rivera	1973	11
	Domela	Domela	1965	10
	Hans Arp	Jean Arp	1957	9
	Giulio Turcato	Giulio Turcato	1968	9
	Feito	Luis Feito	1968	8
	Dialogues in limbo	George Santayana	1925	7
	Piero Dorazio	Piero Dorazio	1964	7
	Willi Baumeister	Willi Baumeister	1966	7
	Abstraction in art and nature	Nathan Cabot Hale	1972	6
	Arcangelo	Arcangelo	1986	6
	Max Uhlig	Max Uhlig	1989	6
	Christian Bonnefoi	Christian Bonnefoi	1996	6
	Flowers	Morris Benz	1960	5
	Sam Francis	Sam Francis	1968	5
	K.R.H. Sonderborg	K. R. H. Sonderborg	1968	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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