Twentieth-Century American Art

by Doss, Erika

• ISBN13: 9780192842398
• ISBN10: 0192842390
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Written by scholars at the forefront of new thinking, this book takes an exciting new look at 20th century American art and explores the era that came to be called the "American century." 65 color illustrations. 74 halftones.

Author Biography

Erika Doss is Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she also directs the American Studies Program. She is the author of several books, including Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(10)
The Gilded Age	19	(16)
Early American Modernism: the Art of Everyday Life	35	(18)
Avant-Garde Art and Experimentation	53	(22)
Modernism and the Interwar Years	75	(22)
A New Deal for the Arts: the Great Depression	97	(22)
Abstract Expressionism	119	(20)
Neo-Dada and Pop Art	139	(22)
Minimalism and Conceptual Art	161	(20)
Feminist Art and Black Art	181	(22)
Culture Wars: the 1980s	203	(24)
Contemporary Art	227	(22)
Notes	249