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From the Book - Sixth edition.
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 : pohtography 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.
From the Book - 5th ed. /
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
From the Book - Fourth edition /
1. Prehistory of Modern Painting --
2. Realism, Impressionism, and Early Photography --
3. Post-Impressionism --
4. Origins of Modern Architecture and Design --
5. Art Nouveau --
6. Origins of Modern Sculpture --
7. Fauvism --
8. Expressionism in Germany --
9. Figurative Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century Sculpture --
10. Cubism --
11. Towards Abstraction --
12. Early Twentieth-Century Architecture --
13. From Fantasy to Dada and the New Objectivity --
14. School of Paris Between the Wars --
15. Surrealism --
16. Modern Architecture Between the Wars --
17. International Abstraction Between the Wars --
18. American Art Before World War II --
19. Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture --
20. Postwar European Art --
21. Pop Art and Europe's New Realism --
22. Sixties Abstraction --
23. Second Wave of International Style Architecture --
24. Pluralistic Seventies --
25. Retrospective Eighties --
26. Postmodernism in Architecture --
27. Epilogue.
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9780136062066
9780810934399
9780131841055
9780205673674
013184105
9780131840690
013184069
9780810934399
9780131841055
9780205673674
013184105
9780131840690
013184069
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