History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography
Title:
History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography
JLCTITLE245:
H.H. Arnason.
Personal Author:
Edition:
5th ed. / Peter Kalb, revising author, 5th ed.
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2004.
Physical Description:
xv, 832 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
ISBN:
9780131840690
9780131841055
Abstract:
"Arnason's History of Modern Art remains the definitive source of information on the art of the modern era from Modernism's mid-nineteenth-century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends. Now full color throughout, this Fifth Edition contains new headings, subheadings, and a glossary to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest. The entire text has been carefully edited for greater clarity, narrative coherence, and scholarly currency."--Jacket.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 776-798) and index.
Added Author:
Contents:
The sources of modern painting -- Realism, impressionism, and early photography -- Post-Impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art Nouveau and the beginnings of expressionism -- The origins of modern sculpture -- Fauvism -- Expressionism in German -- The figurative tradition in early twentieth-century sculpture -- Cubism -- Futurism, abstraction in Russia, and de Stijl -- Early twentieth-century architecture -- From fantasy to Dada and the new objectivity -- The school of Paris after World War I -- Surrealism -- Modern architecture between the wars -- International abstraction between the wars -- American art before World War II -- Abstract expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European art -- Pop art and Europe's new realism -- Sixties abstraction -- The second wave of international style architecture -- The plualistic seventies -- Postmodernism in architecture -- The retrospective eighties -- Resistance and resolution.