384 Pages
29 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
384 Pages
29 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
384 Pages
29 Color & 70 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Modern Art: A Critical Introduction traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in which art has been understood. The editors investigate the main developments in art interpretation... Read more
1 What, When and Where was Modernism? 2. Retreats from the Urban 3. Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space 4. The Nude in Modernity and Postmodernity 5. From the Machine Aesthetic to Technoculture 6. Modernism and Realism in US Art 7. The Artist and the Museum: Muse or Nemesis? 8. Identity Politics in Photography and Performance Art
Biography
Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon
'An excellent introduction, well-written and superbly illustrated' - Gaby Esser-Hall, University College Northampton, UK
