Modern Art

For one-semester/quarter, freshman/junior-level courses in Modern Art, Contemporary Art, 20th-Century Art. Richly illustrated and clearly focused, this text 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. Organized along chronological lines, it explores the ideas, forms, events, artists, and works--with each chapter devoted to a style, movement, or decade--from Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and Van Gogh through Minimalism and the general reaction known as Post-Modernism. Ideal for students with a general interest in art, 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.

ISBN 0131895656   Pages 480 ISBN13 9780131895652 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Pearson Education (US)   Weight (grammes) 1688 Imprint Pearson Education (US)   Published in Upper Saddle River Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780131830578 Publication date 20 Aug 2004   Height (mm) 286 Reissue date 30 Jan 2006   Width (mm) 216 Library of Congress N6447.H86   Spine width (mm) 32 DEWEY 709.04   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Modernism and its origins in the 19th century		9
2		Seurat, Cezanne, and the language of structure		23
3		Gauguin, van Gogh, and the language of vision		34
4		Art nouveau in painting and design		54
5		Early modern sculpture : from Rodin to Brancusi		61
6		Tradition and innovation in architecture : 1880-1914		81
7		Expressionism in France : Matisse and the Fauves		101
8		Expressionism in Germany : the bridge and the blue rider		112
9		The cubist revolution : Braque and Picasso		132
10		From Cubism to abstract art : futurism, suprematism, De Stijl		148
11		Dada and fantastic art		163
12		Surrealism : the resolution of dream and reality		178
13		The shaping of a new architecture 1918-40		196
14		The school of Paris between the wars		215
15		International abstraction : constructivism and the Bauhaus		234
16		American art in the wake of the armory show		247
17		The New York school : abstract expressionism		265
18		The postwar European school : L'Art Informel, expressionist figuration, welded sculpture		285
19		American art of the sixties : pop art and minimalism		298
20		Europe's new realism, pop art, and abstraction		329
21		The diffusion of the new architecture : 1954-75		340
22		The post-minimal/post-modern seventies : from conceptual art to new image		357
23		The post-modern eighties : from neo-expressionism to neo-conceptualism		388
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