Art of the 20th century (2 Volumes)
New York: Taschen, 1998. Slipcased. Red or PInk cloth boards. Red or pink dj. 840 pages total : illustrations (some color), portraits. Decorative slipcase. VG/VG/VG. Item #188937
ISBN: 3822885762
Contents:
Vol. 1. Painting / by Karl Ruhrberg : Prologue to modernism -- The world as symbol -- The break with history -- Expression and form -- Classicism and imagination -- The end of illusion -- Revolt and poetry -- Abstraction and reality -- The face of the century -- Between revolt and acceptance -- The Paris-New York shift -- Painting as a mind-game -- Beyond utopia -- At this writing.
Vol. 2. Sculpture / by Manfred Schneckenburger : Metamorphoses of modern sculpture -- Between tradition and modernity -- Abstraction and Cubism's sound shift -- Constructing the world -- From readymade to surrealist object -- New materials: iron and steel -- Biomorphic sculptures: a vitalistic counterposition -- Post-war positions: the existential and the abstract -- Kinetic expansion -- The direct language of reality -- American and European minimalists -- Post-minimal: sensual intensity and the expansion of art -- The delta of the contemporary -- New media: non-traditional forms of artistic expression / by Christiane Fricke : Activation of the senses -- Intermedia: Happenings, actions and Fluxus -- At the interface of art and the media industry -- Video-software: hardware and performance -- The seventies: a reservoir of ideas -- The eighties: "We're switching over!" -- The nineties: interaction in virtual space -- Photography / by Klaus Honnef : Photography between art and consumerism -- Art from a machine: "new seeing" -- The material world in focus: "Neue Sachlichkeit" -- A meaningful relationship: fashion and photography -- War: the father of all photographs -- The challenge from television -- The conquest of art and the loss of character -- Lexicon of artists / by Ingo F. Walther.
OCLC: 195088312
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