After Modern Art 1945-2000

David Hopkins

OUP Oxford, Sep 14, 2000 - Art - 288 pages

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2000, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time. Major artists such as Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are all discussed, as is the art world of the last fifty years. Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and the art of the nineties.

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User Review  - Nativeabuse - Goodreads

Interesting book, not well written, but the art displayed inside is a good selection.

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User Review  - Marvin Arevalo - Goodreads

Read and re-read

About the author

David Hopkins is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St. Andrews. He has published extensively on Dada and Surrealism and related topics in postwar art, with books includeing Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: the Bride Shared (Oxford, 1989) and Marcel Duchamp (London, 1989), co-authored with Dawn Ades and Neil Cox.

Bibliographic information

• Title: After Modern Art 1945-2000; Oxford History of Art; Uka Series
• Author: David Hopkins
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2000
• ISBN: 019284234X, 9780192842343
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)