History Of Modern Art

Description

By (author) Arnason, H. H.; By (author) Mansfield Elizabeth

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A Comprehensive Overview — available in digital and print formats

History 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 Goals

Upon 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

Table of contents:

In this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Chapter 1: The Origins of Modern Art
• Chapter 2: The Search for Truth: Early Photography, Realism, and Impressionism
• Chapter 3: Post-Impressionism
• Chapter 4: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and the Beginnings of Expressionism
• Chapter 5: The New Century: Experiments in Color and Form
• Chapter 6: Expressionism in Germany and Austria
• Chapter 7: Cubism
• Chapter 8: Early Modern Architecture
• Chapter 9: European Art after Cubism
• Chapter 10: Picturing the Wasteland: Western Europe during World War I
• Chapter 11: Art in France after World War I
• Chapter 12: Clarity, Certainty, and Order: De Stijl and the Pursuit of Geometric Abstraction
• Chapter 13: Bauhaus and the Teaching of Modernism
• Chapter 14: Surrealism
• Chapter 15: American Art Before World War II
• Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
• Chapter 17: Postwar European Art
• Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme 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

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Chapter 1: The Origins of Modern Art
  • Making Art and Artists: The Role of the Critic
  • The Modern Artist
  • 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
• Chapter 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
  • From Realism to Impressionism
  • Nineteenth-Century Art in the United States
• Chapter 3: Post-Impressionism
  • The Poetic Science of Color: Seurat and the Neo-Impressionist
  • Form and Nature: Paul Cézanne
  • The Triumph of