History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography
Book
2010
ISBN:
9780205673674
9780136062066
0205673678
0136062067
9780136062066
0205673678
0136062067
Edition:
Sixth edition
Description:
xviii, 830 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 774-803) and index
Contents:
Foreword : a short history of History of modern art
The art of looking
Experience and interpretation
A book that moves with the times
Preface
Acknowledgments
What's new : chapter-by-chapter revisions
1. The origins of modern art
Making art and artists : the role of the critic
What does it mean to be an artist? : from academic emulation toward romantic originality
Making sense of a turbulent world : the legacy of neoclassicism and Romanticism
2. The search for truth : early photography, realism, and impressionism
New ways of seeing : photography and its influence
Only the truth : realism
Seizing the moment : impressionism and the avant-garde
Nineteenth-century art in the United States
3. Post-impressionism
The poetic science of color : Seurat and the neo-impressionists
Form and nature : Paul Cézanne
The triumph of imagination : symbolism
An art reborn : Rodin and sculpture at the fin-de-siècle
Primitivism and the avant-garde : Gauguin and Van Gogh
A new generation of prophets : the Nabis
Montmartre : at home with the avant-garde
4. The origins of modern architecture and design
Safeguarding culture : revivalist tendencies in nineteenth-century architecture
"A return to simplicity" : the arts and crafts movement and experimental architecture
Experiments in synthesis : modernism beside the hearth
Palaces of iron and glass : the influence of industry
"Form follows function" : the Chicago School and the origins of the skyscraper
5. Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Expressionism
With beauty at the reins of industry : aestheticism and Art Nouveau
Toward Expressionism : late nineteenth-century avant-garde painting beyond France
6. The new century : experiments in color and form
Fauvism
"Purity of means" in practice : Henri Matisse's early career
"Wild beasts" tamed : Derain, Vlaminck, and Dufy
Religious art for a modern age : Georges Rouault
The Belle Époque on film : the Lumière brothers and Lartigue
Modernism on a grand scale : Matisse's art after Fauvism
Forms of the essential : Constantin Brancusi
7. Expressionism in Germany
From Romanticism to Expressionism : Corinth and Modersohn-Becker
Spanning the divide between Romanticism and Expressionism : Die Brücke
The spiritual dimension : Der Blaue Reiter
Expressionist sculpture
Self-examination : Expressionism in Austria
8. Cubism
Immersed in tradition : Picasso's early career
Beyond Fauvism : Braque's early career
"Two mountain climbers roped together" : Braque, Picasso, and the development of Cubism
An adaptable idiom : developments in cubist painting in Paris
Other agendas : Orphism and other experimental art in Paris, 1910-14
9. Early-twentieth century architecture
Modernism in harmony and nature : Frank Lloyd Wright
Temples for the modern city : American classicism 1900-15
New simplicity versus Art Nouveau : Vienna before World War I
Tradition and innovation : the German contribution to modern architecture
Toward the International style : the Netherlands and Belgium
10. European responses to Cubism
Fantasy through abstraction : Chagall and the metaphysical school
"Running on shrapnel" : futurism in Italy
"Our vortex is not afraid" : Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism
A world ready for change : the avant-garde in Russia
Utopian visions : Russian constructivism
11. Picturing the wasteland : Western Europe during World War I
The world turned upside down : the birth of Dada
"Her plumbing and her bridges" : Dada come to America
"Art is dead" : Dada in Germany
Idealism and disgust : the "new objectivity" in Germany
12. Art in France after World War I
Eloquent figuration : Les Maudits
Dedication to color : Matisse's later career
Celebrating the good life : Dufy's later career
Eclectic mastery : Picasso's career after the war
Sensuous analysis : Braque's later career
Austerity and elegance : Léger, Le Corbusier, and Ozenfant
13. Clarity, certainty, and order : de Stijl and the pursuit of geometric abstraction
The de Stijl idea
Mondrian : seeking the spiritual through the rational
Van Doesburg, de Stijl, and Elementarism
De Stijl realized : sculpture and architecture
14. Bauhaus and the teaching of modernism
Audacious lightness : the architecture of Gropius
The building as entity : the Bauhaus
The Vorkurs : basis of the Bauhaus curriculum
Die Werkmeistern : craft masters at the Bauhaus
From Bauhaus Dessau to Bauhaus U.S.A.
15. Surrealism and its discontents
Breton and the background to Surrealism
"Art is a fruit" : Arp's later career
Hybrid menageries : Ernst's Surrealist techniques
"Night, music, and stars" : Miró and organic-abstract Surrealism
Methodical anarchy : André Masson
Enigmatic landscapes : Tanguy and Dalí
Surrealism beyond France and Spain : Magritte, Delvaux, Bellmer, Matta, and Lam
Women and Surrealism : Oppenheim, Cahun, Tanning, and Carrington
Never quite "one of ours" : Picasso and Surrealism
Pioneer of a new Iron Age : Julio González
Surrealism's sculptural language : Giacometti's early career
Surrealist sculpture in Britain : Moore
Bizarre juxtapositions : photography and surrealism
16. American art before World War II
America undisguised : the eight and social criticism
291 Gallery and the Stieglitz circle
Coming to America : the Armory Show
Sharpening the focus on color and form : Synchromism and Precisionism
The Harlem Renaissance
Painting the American scene : regionalists and social realists
Social protest and personal pain : Mexican artists
The avant-garde advances : toward American abstract art
Sculpture in America between the wars
17. Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture
Mondrian in New York : the tempo of the metropolis
Entering a new arena : modes of abstract Expressionism
The picture as event : experiments in gestural painting
Complex simplicities : color field painting
Drawing in steel : constructed sculpture
Textures of the surreal : biomorphic sculpture and assemblage
Expressive vision : developments in American photography
18. Postwar European art
Revaluations and violations : figurative art in France
A different art : Abstraction in France
"Pure creation" : concrete art
Postwar juxtapositions : figuration and abstraction in Italy and Spain
"Forget it and start again " : the CoBrA artists and Hundertwasser
Figures in the landscape : British painting and sculpture
Marvels of daily life : European photographers
19. Nouveau Réalisme and pop art
"Extroversion is the rule" : Europe's new realism
"This is tomorrow" : pop art in Britain
Signs of the times : pop art in the United States
Getting closer to life : happenings and environments
"Just look at the surface" : the imagery of everyday life
Rosenquist, Wesselmann, and Indiana
Poetics of the "new Gomorrah" : West Coast artists
Personal documentaries : the snapshot aesthetic in American photography
20. Playing by the rules : sixties abstraction
Drawing the veil : post painterly abstraction
At an oblique angle : Diebenkorn and Twombly
Forming the unit : hard-edge painting
Seeing things : op art
New media mobilized : motion and light
The limits of modernism : minimalism
Complex unities : photography and minimalism
21. Modernism in architecture at mid-century
"The quiet unbroken wave" : the later work of Wright and Le Corbusier
Purity and proportion : the international style in America
Internationalism contextualized : developments in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia
Breaking the mold : experimental housing
Arenas for innovation : major public projects
22. Conceptualism and activist art
Art as language
Conceptual art as cultural critique
Extended arenas : performance art and video
The medium is the message : early video art
When art becomes artist : body art
Radical alternatives : feminist art
Erasing the boundaries between art and life : later feminist art
Invisible to visible : art and racial politics
23. Post-minimalism
Big outdoors : earthworks and land art
Visible statements : monuments and public sculpture
Metaphors for life : process art
Body of evidence : figurative art
Animated surfaces : pattern and decoration
Figure and ambiguity : new image art
24. Postmodernism
Postmodernism in architecture
"Complexity and contradiction" : the reaction against Modernism sets in
In praise of "messy vitality" : postmodernist eclecticism
Ironic grandeur : postmodern architecture and history
What is a building? : deconstruction
Structure as metaphor : architectural abstractions
Flexible spaces : architecture and urbanism
Postmodern practices : breaking art history
25. Painting through history
Primal passions : neo-Expressionism
Regarding representation : painting and photography in the 1980s
Searing statements : painting as social conscience
In the empire of signs : Neo-Geo
The sum of many parts : abstraction in the 1980s
Wall of fame : graffiti and cartoon artists
Painting art history
26. Contemporary art and the renegotiation of modernism
Commodity art
Postmodern arenas : installation art
Strangely familiar : British and American sculpture
Reprise and reinterpretation : art history as art
Meeting points : exploring a postmodern abstraction
27. Contemporary art and globalization
Lines that define us : locating and crossing borders
Growing into identity
Skin deep : identity and the body
The art of biography
Globalization and arts institutions
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Credits
The art of looking
Experience and interpretation
A book that moves with the times
Preface
Acknowledgments
What's new : chapter-by-chapter revisions
1. The origins of modern art
Making art and artists : the role of the critic
What does it mean to be an artist? : from academic emulation toward romantic originality
Making sense of a turbulent world : the legacy of neoclassicism and Romanticism
2. The search for truth : early photography, realism, and impressionism
New ways of seeing : photography and its influence
Only the truth : realism
Seizing the moment : impressionism and the avant-garde
Nineteenth-century art in the United States
3. Post-impressionism
The poetic science of color : Seurat and the neo-impressionists
Form and nature : Paul Cézanne
The triumph of imagination : symbolism
An art reborn : Rodin and sculpture at the fin-de-siècle
Primitivism and the avant-garde : Gauguin and Van Gogh
A new generation of prophets : the Nabis
Montmartre : at home with the avant-garde
4. The origins of modern architecture and design
Safeguarding culture : revivalist tendencies in nineteenth-century architecture
"A return to simplicity" : the arts and crafts movement and experimental architecture
Experiments in synthesis : modernism beside the hearth
Palaces of iron and glass : the influence of industry
"Form follows function" : the Chicago School and the origins of the skyscraper
5. Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Expressionism
With beauty at the reins of industry : aestheticism and Art Nouveau
Toward Expressionism : late nineteenth-century avant-garde painting beyond France
6. The new century : experiments in color and form
Fauvism
"Purity of means" in practice : Henri Matisse's early career
"Wild beasts" tamed : Derain, Vlaminck, and Dufy
Religious art for a modern age : Georges Rouault
The Belle Époque on film : the Lumière brothers and Lartigue
Modernism on a grand scale : Matisse's art after Fauvism
Forms of the essential : Constantin Brancusi
7. Expressionism in Germany
From Romanticism to Expressionism : Corinth and Modersohn-Becker
Spanning the divide between Romanticism and Expressionism : Die Brücke
The spiritual dimension : Der Blaue Reiter
Expressionist sculpture
Self-examination : Expressionism in Austria
8. Cubism
Immersed in tradition : Picasso's early career
Beyond Fauvism : Braque's early career
"Two mountain climbers roped together" : Braque, Picasso, and the development of Cubism
An adaptable idiom : developments in cubist painting in Paris
Other agendas : Orphism and other experimental art in Paris, 1910-14
9. Early-twentieth century architecture
Modernism in harmony and nature : Frank Lloyd Wright
Temples for the modern city : American classicism 1900-15
New simplicity versus Art Nouveau : Vienna before World War I
Tradition and innovation : the German contribution to modern architecture
Toward the International style : the Netherlands and Belgium
10. European responses to Cubism
Fantasy through abstraction : Chagall and the metaphysical school
"Running on shrapnel" : futurism in Italy
"Our vortex is not afraid" : Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism
A world ready for change : the avant-garde in Russia
Utopian visions : Russian constructivism
11. Picturing the wasteland : Western Europe during World War I
The world turned upside down : the birth of Dada
"Her plumbing and her bridges" : Dada come to America
"Art is dead" : Dada in Germany
Idealism and disgust : the "new objectivity" in Germany
12. Art in France after World War I
Eloquent figuration : Les Maudits
Dedication to color : Matisse's later career
Celebrating the good life : Dufy's later career
Eclectic mastery : Picasso's career after the war
Sensuous analysis : Braque's later career
Austerity and elegance : Léger, Le Corbusier, and Ozenfant
13. Clarity, certainty, and order : de Stijl and the pursuit of geometric abstraction
The de Stijl idea
Mondrian : seeking the spiritual through the rational
Van Doesburg, de Stijl, and Elementarism
De Stijl realized : sculpture and architecture
14. Bauhaus and the teaching of modernism
Audacious lightness : the architecture of Gropius
The building as entity : the Bauhaus
The Vorkurs : basis of the Bauhaus curriculum
Die Werkmeistern : craft masters at the Bauhaus
From Bauhaus Dessau to Bauhaus U.S.A.
15. Surrealism and its discontents
Breton and the background to Surrealism
"Art is a fruit" : Arp's later career
Hybrid menageries : Ernst's Surrealist techniques
"Night, music, and stars" : Miró and organic-abstract Surrealism
Methodical anarchy : André Masson
Enigmatic landscapes : Tanguy and Dalí
Surrealism beyond France and Spain : Magritte, Delvaux, Bellmer, Matta, and Lam
Women and Surrealism : Oppenheim, Cahun, Tanning, and Carrington
Never quite "one of ours" : Picasso and Surrealism
Pioneer of a new Iron Age : Julio González
Surrealism's sculptural language : Giacometti's early career
Surrealist sculpture in Britain : Moore
Bizarre juxtapositions : photography and surrealism
16. American art before World War II
America undisguised : the eight and social criticism
291 Gallery and the Stieglitz circle
Coming to America : the Armory Show
Sharpening the focus on color and form : Synchromism and Precisionism
The Harlem Renaissance
Painting the American scene : regionalists and social realists
Social protest and personal pain : Mexican artists
The avant-garde advances : toward American abstract art
Sculpture in America between the wars
17. Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture
Mondrian in New York : the tempo of the metropolis
Entering a new arena : modes of abstract Expressionism
The picture as event : experiments in gestural painting
Complex simplicities : color field painting
Drawing in steel : constructed sculpture
Textures of the surreal : biomorphic sculpture and assemblage
Expressive vision : developments in American photography
18. Postwar European art
Revaluations and violations : figurative art in France
A different art : Abstraction in France
"Pure creation" : concrete art
Postwar juxtapositions : figuration and abstraction in Italy and Spain
"Forget it and start again " : the CoBrA artists and Hundertwasser
Figures in the landscape : British painting and sculpture
Marvels of daily life : European photographers
19. Nouveau Réalisme and pop art
"Extroversion is the rule" : Europe's new realism
"This is tomorrow" : pop art in Britain
Signs of the times : pop art in the United States
Getting closer to life : happenings and environments
"Just look at the surface" : the imagery of everyday life
Rosenquist, Wesselmann, and Indiana
Poetics of the "new Gomorrah" : West Coast artists
Personal documentaries : the snapshot aesthetic in American photography
20. Playing by the rules : sixties abstraction
Drawing the veil : post painterly abstraction
At an oblique angle : Diebenkorn and Twombly
Forming the unit : hard-edge painting
Seeing things : op art
New media mobilized : motion and light
The limits of modernism : minimalism
Complex unities : photography and minimalism
21. Modernism in architecture at mid-century
"The quiet unbroken wave" : the later work of Wright and Le Corbusier
Purity and proportion : the international style in America
Internationalism contextualized : developments in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia
Breaking the mold : experimental housing
Arenas for innovation : major public projects
22. Conceptualism and activist art
Art as language
Conceptual art as cultural critique
Extended arenas : performance art and video
The medium is the message : early video art
When art becomes artist : body art
Radical alternatives : feminist art
Erasing the boundaries between art and life : later feminist art
Invisible to visible : art and racial politics
23. Post-minimalism
Big outdoors : earthworks and land art
Visible statements : monuments and public sculpture
Metaphors for life : process art
Body of evidence : figurative art
Animated surfaces : pattern and decoration
Figure and ambiguity : new image art
24. Postmodernism
Postmodernism in architecture
"Complexity and contradiction" : the reaction against Modernism sets in
In praise of "messy vitality" : postmodernist eclecticism
Ironic grandeur : postmodern architecture and history
What is a building? : deconstruction
Structure as metaphor : architectural abstractions
Flexible spaces : architecture and urbanism
Postmodern practices : breaking art history
25. Painting through history
Primal passions : neo-Expressionism
Regarding representation : painting and photography in the 1980s
Searing statements : painting as social conscience
In the empire of signs : Neo-Geo
The sum of many parts : abstraction in the 1980s
Wall of fame : graffiti and cartoon artists
Painting art history
26. Contemporary art and the renegotiation of modernism
Commodity art
Postmodern arenas : installation art
Strangely familiar : British and American sculpture
Reprise and reinterpretation : art history as art
Meeting points : exploring a postmodern abstraction
27. Contemporary art and globalization
Lines that define us : locating and crossing borders
Growing into identity
Skin deep : identity and the body
The art of biography
Globalization and arts institutions
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Credits
LCCN:
2009015436
Control Number:
688731
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