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A Comprehensive Overview - available in digital and print formatsHistory of Modern Art is a visual comprehensive overview of the modern art field. It traces the trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The seventh edition deepens its discussions on social conditions that have affected the production and reception of modern and contemporary art. Learning GoalsUpon completing this book, readers should be able to: Understand the origins of modern art Provide an analysis of artworks based on formal and contextual elements Recognize the influences of social conditions on modern art NOTE: MySearchLab does not come automatically package with this text. To purchase MySearchlab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of teh text + MySearchLab: Valuepack ISBN-10: 0205955517/ ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205955510
Contents
In this Section1) Brief Table of Contents2) Full Table of ContentsChapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture Chapter 17: Postwar European Art Chapter 18: Nouveau Realisme and Fluxus Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists Chapter 24: Postmodernism Chapter 25: Painting through History Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization Chapter 16: 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 AssemblageExpressive Vision: Developments in American Photography Chapter 17: Postwar European Art Re-evaluations and Violations: Figurative Art in France A Different Art: Abstraction in France Postwar Juxtapositions: Figuration and Abstraction in Italy and Spain "Forget It and Start Again": The CoBrA Artists and Hundertwasser The Postwar Body: British Sculpture and Painting Marvels of Daily Life: European Photographers Chapter 18: Nouveau Realisme and Fluxus "Sensibility in Material Form": Klein Fluxus Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture "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 Poetics of the "New Gomorrah": West Coast Artists Personal Documentaries: The Snapshot Aesthetic in American Photography Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction Drawing the Veil: Post Painterly Abstraction At an Oblique Angle: Diebenkorn Forming the Unit: Hard-Edge Painting Seeing Things: Op Art New Media Mobilized: Motion and Light The Limits of Modernism: Minimalism Complex Unities: Photography and Minimalism Chapter 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 Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art Art as Language Conceptual Art as Cultural Critique 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 Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists Metaphors for Life: Process Art Big Outdoors: Earthworks and Land Art Public Statements: Monuments and Large-Scale Sculpture Body of Evidence: Figurative Art Animated Surfaces: Pattern and Decoration Figure and Ambiguity: New Image Art Chapter 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?: Constructivist and Deconstructivist Architecture Structure as Metaphor: Architectural Allegories Flexible Spaces: Architecture and Urbanism Postmodern Practices: Breaking Art History Chapter 25: Painting through History Primal Passions: Neo-Expressionism Searing Statements: Painting as Social Conscience In the Empire of Signs: Neo-Geo The Sum of Many Parts: Abstraction in the 1980s Taking Art to the Streets: Graffiti and Cartoon Artists Painting Art History Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience Commodity Art Postmodern Arenas: Installation Art Strangely Familiar: British and American Sculpture Reprise and Reinterpretation: Art History as Art New Perspectives on Childhood and Identity The Art of Biography Meeting Points: New Approaches to Abstraction Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization Lines That Define Us: Locating and Crossing Borders Skin Deep: Identity and the Body Occupying the Art World Globalization and Arts Institutions
