Godina izdanja: 2005
ISBN: 3822840890
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Istorija umetnosti
Autor: Strani

Walther F. Ingo, Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger, Christiane Fricke, Klaus Honnef - Art Of The 20th Century - Volumes I and II
Taschen, 2005
840 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

32 cm |

Explores the various styles and movements of twentieth-century art, covering painting, sculpture, and related artifacts, as well as new media, and photography; discusses the interrelations between the disciplines; and includes color and black-and-white illustrations.

The term `art` has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to art of the 20th century.

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

Review
“…an exceptional overview. From Fauvism to formaldehyde via Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Surrealism, this book gives you the theories, players, and timelines, and lets you decide whether you think it’s art or nonsense.” ― Independent on Sunday

About the Author
Ingo F. Walther (1940–2007) was born in Berlin and studied medieval studies, literature, and art history in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He published numerous books on the art of the Middle Ages and of the 19th and 20th centuries. Walther’s many titles for TASCHEN include Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Art of the 20th Century, and Codices illustres.


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