Modern Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

by Hunter, Sam; Jacobus, John; Wheeler, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780810943834
• ISBN10: 0810943832
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Almost a half century ago, the painter Willem de Kooning said: "There's no way of looking at a work of art by itself; it's not self-evident -- it needs a history, it needs a lot of talking about". The great works of modern art get talked about in this highly literate narrative overview, which traces modernism's radical essence -- from its origins in the late 19th century right through the 1990s -- with thoroughness, zest, and an engaging sense of adventure.

The Revised Third Edition of this popular text contains four substantial new chapters -- illustrated by some 200 new plates, most in full color -- depicting "a new fin de siecle almost exactly one hundred years after the revolutionary works of Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh left no doubt that the art of the 20th century would be unlike anything known before".

Author Biography

John Jacobus is Professor of Art and Urban Studies at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	5	(4)
Modernism and Its Origins in the 19th Century	9	(14)
Seurat, Cezanne, and the Language of Structure	23	(11)
Gauguin, van Gogh, and the Language of Vision	34	(20)
Art Nouveau in Painting and Design	54	(7)
Early Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to Brancusi	61	(20)
Tradition and Innovation in Architecture: 1880-1914	81	(20)
Expressionism in France: Matisse and the Fauves	101	(11)
Expressionism in Germany: The Bridge and the Blue Rider	112	(20)
The Cubist Revolution: Braque and Picasso	132	(16)
From Cubism to Abstract Art: Futurism, Suprematism, De Stijl	148	(15)
Dada and Fantastic Art	163	(15)
Surrealism: The Resolution of Dream and Reality	178	(18)
The Shaping of a New Architecture: 1918-40	196	(19)
The School of Paris between the Wars	215	(19)
International Abstraction: Constructivism and the Baubaus	234	(13)
American Art in the Wake of the Armory Show	247	(18)
The New York School: Abstract Expressionism	265	(20)
The Postwar European School: L'Art Informel, Expressionist Figuration, Welded Sculpture	285	(13)
American Art of the Sixties: Pop Art and Minimalism	298	(31)
Europe's New Realism, Pop Art, and Abstraction	329	(11)
The Diffusion of the New Architecture: 1954-75	340	(17)
The Post-Minimal/Post-Modern Seventies: From Conceptual Art to New Image	357	(31)
The Post-Modern Eighties: From Neo-Expressionism to Neo-Conceptualism	388	(25)
The Nineties: Art for the Millennium	413	(17)
Post-and Neo-Modernism in Architecture	430	(11)
Notes	441	(1)
Bibliography	441	(4)
Index	445