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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Arnason, H. Harvard. History of modern art. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2010 (OCoLC)744623225 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
H Harvard Arnason; Elizabeth Mansfield |
| ISBN: | 0205673678 9780205673674 0136062067 9780136062066 |
| OCLC Number: | 318645798 |
| Description: | xviii, 830 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Contents: | The origins of modern art -- The search for truth: early photography, realism, and impressionism -- Post-impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Expressionism -- The new century: experiments in color and form -- Expressionism in Germany -- Cubism -- Early-twentieth -century architecture -- European responses to Cubism -- Picturing the wasteland: Western Europe during World War I -- Art in France after World War I -- Clarity, certainty, and order: de Stijl and the pursuit of geometric abstraction -- Bauhaus and the teaching of modernism -- Surrealism and its discontents -- American art before World War II -- Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European art -- Nouveau Realisme and pop art -- Playing by the rules: sixties abstraction -- Modernism in architecture at mid-century -- Conceptualism and activist art -- Post-minimalism -- Postmodernism -- Painting through history -- Contemporary art and the renegotiation of modernism -- Contemporary art and globalization. |
| Responsibility: | H.H. Arnason, Elizabeth C. Mansfield. |
| Local System Bib Number: | ocn318645798 |
Abstract:
This volume presents a survey of modern art. This term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experiment with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. This text traces the development of trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Contemporary art is presented thematically rather than by decade, and various media are integrated. Consideration is given to globalization and the influence of modernism on non-Western and developing countries. Further learning is fostered by the book's bibliography, index, and glossary.
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