Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Background, Training, and Early Philosophical Readings
• 2. Exploring the Relationship between Artist and Society
• 3. The Design Laboratory and Pereira’s Introduction to Bauhaus Theories
• 4. The “Glass Age” and Pereira’s First Paintings on Glass
• 5. Pereira’s Study of Perception: Hildebrand, Worringer, Hinton, and Giedion
• 6. The Impact of Jung, Alchemy, and Tales of Transformation on Pereira’s Abstract Symbolism
• 7. Reconciling the Inner-Outer Duality: Pereira’s Philosophy of Space, Time, and Light
• 8. Pereira versus Abstract Expressionism
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Chronology
• Appendix 2: Exhibitions
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Karen A. Bearor is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida State University.