Modern Art

  • Modern Art
    By Michael Kerrigan

    126 Gropper , William Youngstown Strike , c . 1937 Courtesy of Butler Institute of American Art , Youngstown , OH , USA , Museum Purchase 1985 / www.bridgeman.co.uk / o Estrate of William Gropper This picture was painted in the 1930s at ...

  • Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
    By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

    The abstract artist and political activist Stuart Davis argued that 'the term "social content" in art is ill chosen and destructive since it implies a lack of social content in art other than itself. The term should be changed to one ...

  • Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography
    By Sam Hunter, Daniel Wheeler, John M. Jacobus

    "The third edition of Modern Art, now revised and expanded, narrates one of the great stories of our time - how European and American vanguard culture created modernist art by...

  • Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism
    By David Britt

    With over 400 color illustrations, this authoritative introduction covers every major development in the visual arts, from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.

  • Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
    By David Cottington

    ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

  • Modern Art
    By J.-K. Huysmans

    First published in 1883, but never before translated into English, this collection of J.-K. Huysmans’ art criticism reveals the author of Against Nature to be as combative in his aesthetic opinions as he was in his literary ones.

  • Modern Art: Art Essentials Series
    By Amy Dempsey

    A compact, introductory guide to modern art that explains styles, schools, and movements from Impressionism to the present day The first in a new series of essential introductions to art, Modern Art guides the reader through individual ...

  • Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography
    By Sam Hunter, Daniel Wheeler, John M. Jacobus

    "The third edition of Modern Art, now revised and expanded, narrates one of the great stories of our time - how European and American vanguard culture created modernist art by heeding the call "to make it new.

  • Modern Art
    By Hans Werner Holzwarth, Laszlo Taschen

    Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernismThe modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris.

  • Modern Art
    By Trewin Copplestone

    "Developments such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop art. Op and Kinetic painting and sculpture, neo Dada, and the more recent Assemblage art, Environment art, Minimalism, and Superrealism are all explored in...

  • Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
    By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

    ... Cabaret Voltaire , an extension of Umberto Boccioni's legendary Italian futurist evenings , was founded and directed ... Cabaret became the focus of Zurich Dada's anti - war , anti - nationalist writers and artists , like Tristan Tzara ...

  • Modern Art: Selected Essays
    By Leo Steinberg

    ... Monet's paintings yielded more than the formalist ap- proach codified by John Rewald in his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ) had to be rediscovered in New Haven . 5. See Paul Hayes Tucker , Monet in the ' 90s ... Monet , see Ruth Butler ...

  • Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
    By Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon

    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 ...

  • Modern Art: 19th And 20th Centuries Selected Papers
    By Meyer Schapiro

    This revised edition of Meyer Schapiro's exceptional collection of essays includes a new preface by Adrienne Baxter Bell.

  • Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries
    By Meyer Schapiro

    Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries