Modern Art, Revised (Trade Version)

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary

Richly illustrated and clearly focused, this book surveys the genesis, development, and culmination of modern European/American painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art from Post-Impressionism through the most recent developments in the 1990s. It avoids the typical encyclopedic approach of surveys in favor of examining selected but highly representative works in greater depth and from an enlarged spectrum of critical discourse. Organized along chronological lines, topics explore the ideas, forms, events, artists, and works with each chapter devoted to a style, movement, or decade from Cé zanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and Van Gogh through Minimalism and the general reaction known as Post-Modernism. Ideal for readers with a "general"

Table of Contents

Modernism, and Its Origins in the 19th Century
Seurat, Ceacute;zanne, and the Language of Structure
Gauguin, van Gogh, and the Language of Vision
Art Nouveau in Painting and Design
Early Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to Brancusi
Tradition and Innovation in Architecture: 1880-1914
Expressionism in France: Matisse and the Fauves
Expressionism in Germany: The Bridge and the Blue Rider
The Cubist Revolution: Braque and Picasso
From Cubism to Abstract Art: Futurism, Suprematism, De Stijl
Dada and Fantastic Art
Surrealism: The Resolution of Dream and Reality
The Shaping of a New Architecture: 1918-1940
The School of Paris between the Wars
International Abstraction: Constructivism and the Bauhaus
American Art in the Wake of the Armory Show
The New York School: Abstract Expressionism
The Postwar European School: L'Art Informel, Expressionist Figuration, Welded Sculpture
American Art of the Sixties: Pop Art and Minimalism
Europe's New Realism, Pop Art, and Abstraction
The Diffusion of the New Architecture: 1954-1975
The Post-Minimal, Post-Modern Seventies: From Conceptual Art to New Image
The Post-Modern Eighties: From Neo-Expressionism to Neo-Conceptualism
The End of Isms and the Beginning of the New Millennium
Post- and Neo-Modernism in Architecture
Glossary
Timelines
Museum Links and Websites
Bibliography
Index
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