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Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition. Biographical and anecdotal information about each artist is provided alongside...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In this book, Neil Levi explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the antimodernist polemics of Richard Wagner, Max Nordau, Wyndham Lewis, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, reaching its apotheosis in the notorious 1937 Nazi exhibition "Degenerate Art." Levi then turns to James...
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
"Robert Hughes' history of modern art from cubism to pop and the avant-garde. The sequel to the BBC's Civilization series, picks up at the threshold of the 20th century. It is written and presented by Robert Hughes, art critic and senior writer for Time. Hughes draws on a wealth of documentary materials from the archives of the BBC, including rare footage and interviews with noted artists. The range of major figures includes Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso,...
Author
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, Emilia Terracciano traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India; she explores catastrophic turning points in the history of twentieth-century India, via the art works which emerged from them. Art and Emergency reveals how the suspended, diagonal, fugitive lines of Nasreen Mohamedi's...
18) Late modernism
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
Description
Discusses the art and artists of the artistic style known as late modernism.