BIEDERMAN, Charles

Initially a geometric painter who also made abstract reliefs, in the early 1940s Biederman assimilated Alfred Korzybski's theories about the general structure of language. Moving to Red Wing, Minnesota, he produced a series of self-published books, beginning with his masterwork Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge (1948), that rank among the most ambitious writing projects ever undertaken by an American visual artist. His themes were that representational art hampers human invention (especially...