Mark Godfrey, Barnett Newman’s Abstraction  Speaker: Mark Godfrey, Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Art. Mark Godfrey considers some ways in which Barnett Newman's art has been interpreted. First, there are those who read it as if it were a code to be deciphered (Thomas Hess). Then there are those who 'see' it, and locate the meaning of the work in the seeing experience (Fried, Judd, Bois, Serra, Sylvester). After looking in detail at these accounts, Godfrey considers more broadly how abstraction structures seeing.Further ReadingThomas Hess, Barnett Newman (MoMA and Tate, 1970)Michael Fried, passage on Newman from 'Three American Painters' in Fried's collection Art and Objecthood, University of Chicago Press, 1998Donald Judd, 'Barnett Newman' in Complete Writings (New York, 1975) (This is also anthologised in many books)Barnett Newman interview with David Sylvester in Barnett Newman, Selected Writings and Interviews (Berkeley, 1992)Yve-Alain Bois, Perceiving Newman in Painting as Model, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. 1990