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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Review by Christopher J. Rogers for Modern Art, Third Edition Revised
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I would NOT recommend this Book. Hunter, Jacobus and Wheeler are very critical and often lend their opinions intrusively with lack of reason / explanation. I had this book for Two Art History classes, the Instructor rarely referenced it, because of the Authors. If you are new to art or want to learn more this is NOT the book!
Example at the end of Chapter 13: “Later, the new style would be used more literally, even daringly, in the “development” of the new city, a process that would also bring with it the wasting, if not complete destruction, of the undervalued heritage of the recent past.” Note the Authors spend most of the paragraph bashing the Rockefelier Center in New York. They never explain why it is “bland” or how the effort becomes “pallid”. You will literally read chapters over and over, finding little tangible support for the authors conclusions. Imagine the Snobbiest / Know it All Person you know then think about how they would write a book.
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The pictures: Are way to dark, Some are discolored and Stretched to fit the page. Not enough pictures of Architecture.
The chapters are not well organized.
The book over concentrates on Language and Voice: Therefore becoming inconclusive gibberish.
It Fails to bring meaning to its own Title; Modern Art. By the end of the book the reader has No Idea what Modern Art is in a whole: where it has been, why it changed, stylistic elements, political context, and etc.
Very few Revisions from the previous edition.