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 ...
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 ...
"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...
With over 400 color illustrations, this authoritative introduction covers every major development in the visual arts, from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.
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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.
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 ...
"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 matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernismThe modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris.
"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...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
This revised edition of Meyer Schapiro's exceptional collection of essays includes a new preface by Adrienne Baxter Bell.
Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries