Modern Art

Name: Modern Art
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ISBN: 9780061363122

ISBN-10: 006136312X

ISBN-13: 9780061363122

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Authors: Gabriele Crepaldi

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While every century has had artists who rebelled, refusing to go along with traditional teaching, what happened during the early years of the 20th century was something far more serious-a rebellion of artists so vast and radical that it called into question the basic principles that until then had determined how art was made and used. Today's art historians refer to those years as the age of the avant-gardes, and in truth, nothing in the world of art has been the same since. All the major artist of the period are covered, from Picasso to Hopper, Klee and Klimt to Kandinsky, Matisse, and Dal, John Ford to Fritz Lang. The artists, historical events, and masterpieces interweave in a story…

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List price: $49.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/9/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 11.88" wide x 12.50" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 6.864

Introduction	p. 16
Art Nouveau	p. 22
Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschka	p. 32
Picasso, the blue and rose periods	p. 44
Matisse and the Fauves	p. 56
Cubism	p. 72
Futurism	p. 86
Avant-garde movements in Russia	p. 102
Modigliani in Paris	p. 116
Primitivism	p. 128
Die Brucke and the birth of Expressionism	p. 138
Der Blaue Reiter	p. 154
Abstractionism	p. 168
Metaphysical art	p. 184
Dada	p. 194
Surrealism	p. 206
Art in Italy between the World Wars	p. 224
Art in Germany between the World Wars	p. 238
Art in Europe between the World Wars	p. 254
Art in the United States	p. 266
The artists of Latin America	p. 284
Sculpture	p. 296
Art prints	p. 310
Architecture	p. 322
Design and the applied arts	p. 338
Photography	p. 350
Motion pictures	p. 358
1900-45: Events, artists, works	p. 366
References	p. 368
Biographies	p. 369
Bibliography	p. 393
Index of names and places	p. 395
Photographic sources	p. 399
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