Art of the 20th CenturyThe original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc. |
Contents
Painting | 6 |
by Karl Ruhrberg | 34 |
Prologue to Modernism 7 5 Classicism and Imagination | 67 |
The World as Symbol 22 The Blauer Reiter Kandinsky and the Spiritual in | 119 |
The Break with History 30 Melancholy and Loneliness | 137 |
Expression and Form 37 The Artists at the Bauhaus under Walter Gropius | 176 |
Contents | 407 |
Between Tradition and Modernity 409 The Existential and the Abstract 487 Aftershock or New Freedom? | 415 |
Constructing the World 445 British Pop Art and Paolozzis Machine World Collages | 449 |
Biomorphic Sculptures Architecture Sculpture and Forms of Action | 477 |
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