An illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end.
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Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century. In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literar…
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"What do a pine cone, a trout, and the human body have in common? They all have natural proportioning systems that provide the foundation for the work of many, some would say all, artists and designers. Revealing these natural systems, Kimberly Elam uncovers the mysterious relat…
A mathematical explanation of how art works, presented in a manner anyone can understand. Kimberly Elam takes the reader on a geometrical journey, lending insight and coherence to the design process by exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics as we…
"Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by Andre Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they displa…
"Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by Andre Breton, the foremost figure among the French surrealists. Written between 1936 and 1952, they include addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. Together they displa…
Review: "The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that would inspire the now ubiquitous presence of the moving image in contemporary art. In the 1950s and 1960s, the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image. And…
"The first book to tell the story of the postwar expanded cinema that would inspire the now ubiquitous presence of the moving image in contemporary art. In the 1950s and 1960s, the rise of television caused movie theaters to lose their monopoly over the moving image. Andrew V. U…
Today, the moving image is ubiquitous in global contemporary art. This book travels back to the 1950s and 1960s, when the rise of television caused movie theatres to lose their monopoly over the moving image, leading cinema to be installed directly alongside other forms of moder…
"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. ... An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."
Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. From Absolut Vodka's sponsorship of art shows to ABN-AMRO Bank's branding of Van Gogh's self-portrait to advertise its credit cards, we have borne wi…
The Museum of Modern Art is recognized for establishing the canon of modern art; yet in its early years, the museum considered modern art part of a still unfolding experiment in contemporary visual production. By bracketing MoMA's early history from its later reputation, this bo…
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the lives and achievements of over four hundred men and women throughout the world who have made significant contributions to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, literature, film, dance, music, and theater.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the lives and achievements of over four hundred men and women throughout the world who have made significant contributions to twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, literature, film, dance, music, and theater.