Main entry:

Arnason, H. H., 1909-1986, author.

Title & Author:

History of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography / H.H. Arnason.

Edition:

3rd ed. / rev. and updated by Daniel Wheeler.

Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall ; New York : H.N. Abrams, 1986.

Description:

744 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-720) and index.
The prehistory of modern painting -- Realism and impressionism -- Post-Impressionism -- Origins of modern architecture: nineteenth-century pioneers -- Art nouveau: from expressionism to fantasy -- The origins of modern sculpture -- Fauvism -- Expressionism in Germany -- Early twentieth-century sculpture -- Cubism -- The spread of cubism -- Early twentieth-century architecture -- From fantasy to dada and the new objectivity -- The school of Paris between the wars -- Surrealism -- The international style in architecture: the first wave -- International abstraction between the wars -- American art between the wars -- Abstract expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European painting and sculpture -- Pop art, assemblage, and Europe's new realism -- Sixties abstraction: renascent constructivism, post-painterly abstraction, op art, kinetic sculpture, minimalism -- The international style in architecture: the second wave -- The post-minimal seventies: from conceptual art to public monuments -- The pluralistic seventies: from the new illusionism to pattern, decoration, and new image art -- The appropriating eighties: from neo-expressionism to neo-abstraction -- Post-modernism in architecture.

Summary:

In this work, through word and image, the story of art-history-in-the-making is told. It is a magnificent story, reaffirming the past century as one of the great ages of art and architecture. The book is intended for the student and the general reader interested in the origins of modern art, its growth, why it has taken certain form, how it continues to develop, and how it differs from earlier art. Most important, it points the way to understanding and enjoying modern art in all its variety and contrasts. The text explores new attitudes toward the materials of art and architecture, new expressive and aesthetic aims, new concepts of use and function in the art, and new ways to involve the viewer, or, in the case of architecture, the user. -- From publisher's description.

ISBN:

0133903605 hardcover
9780133903607 hardcover
0810910977
9780810910973

Subject:

Art, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern 20th century History.
Art, Modern.
Art history
Art 20e siècle.
Art 20e siècle Histoire.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Wheeler, Daniel, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 141590
Call No.: ID:87-B1781
Status: Available