Modern Art: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Modern Art: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192803641

ISBN-10: 0192803646

ISBN-13: 9780192803641

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Cottington

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As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify asmodern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist - in either case, why, and what does this…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.286



Introduction


Introduction: Modern Art: Monument or Mockery?



The formation of the Avant-Garde



New media, new messages



Somebody had to be Picasso: the artist as hero



High and Low: culture and consumerism



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