Modern Art, Revised (Trade Version)

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

• ISBN13: 9780131833302
• ISBN10: 0131833308
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

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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