Modern Art, Third Edition Revised

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.

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Modern Art, Revised (Trade Version) (3rd Edition)

Always among the most visually and intellectually stimulating books, Modern Art has now been revised to include the latest critical theory and the most recent forms of painting, sculpture, and architecture. 800 illustrations, including 350 in full color.

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Mainstreams of Modern Art

A complete study of painting and sculpture of the 19th century, covering its major movements and incorporating its 18th centiry precedents and early 20th century developments.

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History of Modern Art (Trade Version) (4th Edition)

History of Modern Art has long been recognized as the authoritative, encyclopedic history of painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture from the mid-19th century, when modern art emerged, to the present day. Revising author Marla F. Prather’s contributions to the new Fourth Edition include:

More biographical information about each artist.

An entirely new chapter on Cubism.

A lively sense of social and historical context.

Coverage of work in nontraditional mediums, such as video, installation, and performance art.

More than 30% new illustrations and text and nearly twice the number of color illustrations as in previous editions.

A culturally diverse selection of artists and a much broader selection of works by women.

Chronological reorganization of the text, an updated bibliography, and a complete index.

Marla F. Prather is curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The late H. H. Arnason was a noted art historian and museum administrator.

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History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography (5th Edition)

Authoritative and insightful, 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 has been completely redesigned to make it even more elegant and easy-to-use. New heads, subheads, and a glossary have been added to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest.

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New: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

New is a selection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’s most recent acquisitions of contemporary British art, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, works on paper, installations, artist books and a DVD projection. Revealing the broad range of ideas and media used by artists working in Britain today, this book examines, in detail, over 150 works by over eighty artists. The selection includes many of the artists who have risen to prominence in the last decade, such as Damien Hirst, Douglas Gordon, and Rachel Whiteread, as well as recent works by more senoir figures such as Lucien Freud, Alan Davie and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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Modern Art 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation (Oxford History of Art)

Richard Brettell’s innovative and beautifully-illustrated account, the latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford History of Art series, explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali–as well as lesser-known figures–in relation to expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the rise of the museum. Beginning with The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, Brettell follows the development of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. Giving attention to the changing social, economic, and political climate, the book focuses on conditions for the development of modern art such as urban capitalism, modernity, and the accessible image made possible by art museums, temporary exhibitions, lithography, and photography. Brettell examines artists’ responses to modernism, including changes in representation, vision, and “the art of seeing.” Combining the most recent scholarship with 140 illustrations–75 in full color–the book chronicles the change in art and image itself, from the iconology of new representations of the nude human form to the anti-iconography of “art without ‘subject’”: landscape painting; text and image; and abstraction. Tracing common themes of representation, imagination, perception, and sexuality across works in a wide range of different media, and offering profuse illustration to bring the changing art forms vividly to life, Modern Art 1851-1929 presents a fresh approach to the fine art and photography of this remarkable era.

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Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism (World of Art)

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The 3rd revised and enlarged edition of this introduction to modern art in the WORLD OF ART series, which now includes a new essay, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF IDENTITY which brings the story of modern art right up to the present.

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Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century

This chronologically organized and comprehensive anthology of readings tells the whole story of art in America from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the themes, issues, and controversies that occurred throughout the century—using selections that are contemporary with the art—by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, politicians, and other writers on culture. Some recurring themes and issues include issues of identity; the changing nature of modernism and modernity; nationalism; art as individual or community expression; the nature of public art; and the role of criticism, censorship, and government intervention. Texts by well-known writers include Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Donald Kuspit, and Kate Linker. A guide for those interested in both the standard interpretations of American art and in alternative readings.

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Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism

A superbly illustrated overview of the major movements in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.

Modern Art is an authoritative introduction to every important development in the visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Eight critical essays by noted art historians shed light on topics from Impressionism to Dada, Art Nouveau to Pop Art. The essays are ordered chronologically, and each thoroughly examines the historical context—political, social, and technological —that shaped the movement under discussion.

The text is accompanied by more than 400 color illustrations of the work of some of the most celebrated figures in art history, comprising an invigorating multiplicity of visual styles. Anyone seeking a gallery of the masterpieces of twentieth-century art, together with an informed survey of the period, will find no better single volume. 400+ color illustrations.

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