Description
A revised and updated edition of one of the most successful 'Critical Introductions' textbooks
New features include marginal notes and colour photos
New innovative structure, based on feed-back from teachers, focusing on how modern art has been understood rather than a straight chronological account of movements
Table of Contents
1. What, When and Where was Modernism? 2. Retreats from the Urban 3. Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space 4. The Nude in Modernity and Postmodernity 5. From the Machine Aesthetic to Technoculture 6. Modernism and Realism in US Art 7. The Artist and the Museum: Muse or Nemesis? 8. Identity Politics in Photography and Performance Art
