History of Modern Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography

by Arnason, H. H.; Prather, Maria F.

• ISBN13: 9780810934399
• ISBN10: 0810934396
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Revised with more biographical information on each artist, this fourth edition is an authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. 1,438 illustrations, 504 in color.

Table of Contents

Prefaces and Acknowledgments	11-15	(4)
1 The Prehistory of Modern Painting	17	(12)
2 Realism, Impressionism, and Early Photography	29	(35)
3 Post-Impressionism	64	(26)
4 The Origins of Modern Architecture and Design	90	(9)
5 Art Nouveau	99	(21)
6 The Origins of Modern Sculpture	120	(11)
7 Fauvism	131	(10)
8 Expressionism in Germany	141	(30)
9 The Figurative Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture	171	(10)
10 Cubism	181	(36)
11 Towards Abstraction	217	(19)
12 Early Twentieth-Century Architecture	236	(14)
13 From Fantasy to Dada and the New Objectivity	250	(41)
14 The School of Paris Between the Wars	291	(15)
15 Surrealism	306	(49)
16 Modern Architecture Between the Wars	355	(15)
17 International Abstraction Between the Wars	370	(31)
18 American Art Before World War II	401	(36)
19 Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture	437	(40)
20 Postwar European Art	477	(31)
21 Pop Art and Europe's New Realism	508	(50)
22 Sixties Abstraction	558	(44)
23 The Second Wave of International Style Architecture	602	(25)
24 The Pluralistic Seventies	627	(72)
25 The Retrospective Eighties	699	(50)
26 Postmodernism in Architecture	749	(17)
27 Epilogue	766	(40)
Bibliography	806	(23)
Index	829	(25)
Credits	854