History of Modern Art

A Comprehensive Overview - available in digital and print formats History of Modern Art is a visual comprehensive overview of the modern art field. It traces the trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The seventh edition deepens its discussions on social conditions that have affected the production and reception of modern and contemporary art. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: * Understand the origins of modern art * Provide an analysis of artworks based on formal and contextual elements * Recognize the influences of social conditions on modern art "This is a significant and usable text for all undergraduate students of art history, and a very good source book for graduate students. It is an excellent source book for students studying the late nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries." - -Caterina Pierre, Kingsborough Community College CUNY "It demonstrates a strong commitment to writing a history of modern art that is inclusive of women and artists of color. It is clearly written and works toward thorough consideration of a topic rather than superficial analysis. The best text for a course on Modern Art." - Cynthia Fowler, Emmanuel College "Comprehensive, in-depth study of respective stylistic developments in history of modernism; high-quality photographic reproductions; fundamental investment in discussing objects through its own evidence; willingness of text and author(s) to adjust with the times." - Mysoon Rizk, University of Toledo "I am pleased with the inclusion of more women and artists of color and with the context, technique and source boxes. As well, I am pleased with the increased quality of reproductions." - Prudence Roberts, Portland Community College

In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents

2) Full Table of Contents

 

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1: The Origins of Modern Art

Chapter 2: The Search for Truth: Early Photography, Realism, and Impressionism

Chapter 3: Post-Impressionism

Chapter 4: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and the Beginnings of Expressionism

Chapter 5: The New Century: Experiments in Color and Form

Chapter 6: Expressionism in Germany and Austria

Chapter 7: Cubism

Chapter 8: Early Modern Architecture

Chapter 9: European Art after Cubism

Chapter 10: Picturing the Wasteland: Western Europe during World War I

Chapter 11: Art in France after World War I

Chapter 12: Clarity, Certainty, and Order: De Stijl and the Pursuit of Geometric Abstraction

Chapter 13: Bauhaus and the Teaching of Modernism

Chapter 14: Surrealism

Chapter 15: American Art Before World War II

Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture

Chapter 17:  Postwar European Art

Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus

Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture

Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction

Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century

Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art

Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists

Chapter 24: Postmodernism

Chapter 25: Painting through History

Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience

Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization

 

 FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

 

Chapter 1: The Origins of Modern Art

 Making Art and Artists: The Role of the Critic

 The Modern Artist

 What Does It Mean to Be an Artist?: From Academic Emulation toward Romantic Originality

 Making Sense of a Turbulent World: The Legacy of Neoclassicism and Romanticism

 

Chapter 2: The Search for Truth: Early Photography, Realism, and Impressionism

 New Ways of Seeing: Photography and its Influence

 Only the Truth: Realism

 Seizing the Moment: Impressionism and the Avant-Garde

 From Realism to Impressionism

 Nineteenth-Century Art in the United States

 

Chapter 3: Post-Impressionism

 The Poetic Science of Color: Seurat and the Neo-Impressionist

 Form and Nature: Paul Cézanne

 The Triumph of Imagination: Symbolism

 An Art Reborn: Rodin and Sculpture at the Fin de Siecle

 Primitivism and the Avant-Garde: Gauguin and Van Gogh

 A New Generation of Prophets: The Nabis

 Montmartre: At Home with the Avant-Garde

 

Chapter 4: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and the Beginnings of Expressionism

 ?A Return to Simplicity?: The Arts and Crafts Movement and Experimental

 Architecture

 Experiments in Synthesis: Modernism beside the Hearth

 With Beauty at the Reins of Industry: Aestheticism and Art Nouveau

 Natural Forms for the Machine Age: The Art Nouveau Aesthetic

 Painting and Graphic Art

 Toward Expressionism: Late Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde Painting beyond France

 

Chapter 5: The New Century: Experiments in Color and Form

 Fauvism

 ?Purity of Means? in Practice: Henri Matisse?s Early Career

 ?Wild Beasts? Tamed: Derain, Vlaminck, and Dufy

 Religious Art for a Modern Age: Georges Rouault

 The Belle Époque on Film: The Lumiere Brothers and Lartigue

 Modernism on a Grand Scale: Matisse?s Art after Fauvism

 Forms of the Essential: Constantin Brancusi

 

Chapter 6: Expressionism in Germany and Austria

 From Romanticism to Expressionism: Corinth and Modersohn-Becker

 Spanning the Divide between Romanticism and Expressionism: Die Brücke

 The Spiritual Dimension: Der Blaue Reiter

 Expressionist Sculpture

 Self-Examination: Expressionism in Austria

 

Chapter 7: Cubism

 Immersed in Tradition: Picasso?s Early Career

 Beyond Fauvism: Braque?s Early Career

 ?Two Mountain Climbers Roped Together?: Braque, Picasso, and the

 Development of Cubism

 Constructed Spaces: Cubist Sculpture

 An Adaptable Idiom: Developments in Cubist Painting in Paris

 Other Agendas: Orphism and Other Experimental Art in

 

Chapter 8: Early Modern Architecture

 ?Form Follows Function?: The Chicago School and the Origins of the Skyscraper

 Modernism in Harmony with Nature: Frank Lloyd Wright

 Temples for the Modern City: American Classicism 1900?15

 New Simplicity Versus Art Nouveau: Vienna Before World War I

 Tradition and Innovation: The German Contribution to Modern Architecture

 Toward the International Style: The Netherlands and Belgium

 

Chapter 9: European Art after Cubism

 Fantasy Through Abstraction: Chagall and the Metaphysical School

 ?Running on Shrapnel?: Futurism in Italy

 ?Our Vortex is Not Afraid?: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

 A World Ready for Change: The Avant-Garde in Russia

 Utopian Visions: Russian Constructivism

 

Chapter 10: Picturing the Wasteland: Western Europe during World War I

 The World Turned Upside Down: The Birth of Dada

 ?Her Plumbing and Her Bridges?: Dada Comes to America

 ?Art is Dead?: Dada in Germany

 Idealism and Disgust: The ?New Objectivity? in Germany

 

Chapter 11: Art in France after World War I

 Eloquent Figuration: Les Maudits

 Dedication to Color: Matisse?s Later Career

 Celebrating the Good Life: Dufy?s Later Career

 Eclectic Mastery: Picasso?s Career after the War

 Sensuous Analysis: Braque?s Later Career

 Austerity and Elegance: Léger, Le Corbusier, and Ozenfant

 

Chapter 12: Clarity, Certainty, and Order: De Stijl and the Pursuit of Geometric Abstraction

 The de Stijl Idea

 Mondrian: Seeking the Spiritual Through the Rational

 Van Doesburg, de Stijl, and Elementarism

 De Stijl Realized: Sculpture and Architecture

 

Chapter 13: Bauhaus and the Teaching of Modernism

 Audacious Lightness: The Architecture of Gropius

 The Building as Entity: The Bauhaus

 The Vorkurs: Basis of the Bauhaus Curriculum

 Die Werkmeistern: Craft Masters at the Bauhaus

 From Bauhaus Dessau to Bauhaus U.S.A.

 

Chapter 14: Surrealism

 Breton and the Background to Surrealism

 ?Art is a Fruit?: Arp?s Later Career

 Hybrid Menageries: Ernst?s Surrealist Techniques

 ?Night, Music, and Stars?: Miró and Organic?Abstract Surrealism

 Methodical Anarchy: André Masson

 Enigmatic Landscapes: Tanguy and Dalí

 Surrealism beyond France and Spain: Magritte, Delvaux, Bellmer, Matta, and Lam

 Women and Surrealism: Oppenheim, Cahun, Maar, Tanning, and Carrington

 Never Quite ?One of Ours?: Picasso and Surrealism

 Pioneer of a New Iron Age: Julio González

 Surrealism?s Sculptural Language: Giacometti?s Early Career

 Surrealist Sculpture in Britain: Moore

 Bizarre Juxtapositions: Photography and Surrealism

 

Chapter 15: American Art Before World War II

 American Artist as Cosmopolitan: Romaine Brooks

 The Truth about America: The Eight and Social Criticism

 A Rallying Place for Modernism: 291 Gallery and the Stieglitz Circle

 Coming to America: The Armory Show

 Sharpening the Focus on Color and Form: Synchromism and Precisionism

 The Harlem Renaissance

 Painting the American Scene: Regionalists and Social Realists

 Documents of an Era: American Photographers Between the Wars

 Social Protest and Personal Pain: Mexican Artists

 The Avant-Garde Advances: Toward American Abstract Art

 Sculpture in America Between the Wars

 

Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture

 Mondrian in New York: The Tempo of the Metropolis

 Entering a New Arena: Modes of Abstract Expressionism

 The Picture as Event: Experiments in Gestural Painting

 Complex Simplicities: Color Field Painting

 Drawing in Steel: Constructed Sculpture

 Textures of the Surreal: Biomorphic Sculpture and Assemblage

 Expressive Vision: Developments in American Photography

 

Chapter 17:  Postwar European Art

 Re-evaluations and Violations: Figurative Art in France

 A Different Art: Abstraction in France

 Postwar Juxtapositions: Figuration and Abstraction in Italy and Spain

 ?Forget It and Start Again?: The CoBrA Artists and Hundertwasser

 The Postwar Body: British Sculpture and Painting

 Marvels of Daily Life: European Photographers

  

Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus

 ?Sensibility in Material Form?: Klein

 Fluxus

 

Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture

 ?This is Tomorrow?: Pop Art in Britain

 Signs of the Times: Pop Art in the United States

 Getting Closer to Life: Happenings and Environments

 ?Just Look at the Surface?: The Imagery of Everyday Life  

 Poetics of the ?New Gomorrah?: West Coast Artists

 Personal Documentaries: The Snapshot Aesthetic in American Photography

 

Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction

 Drawing the Veil: Post Painterly Abstraction

 At an Oblique Angle: Diebenkorn

 Forming the Unit: Hard-Edge Painting

 Seeing Things: Op Art

 New Media Mobilized: Motion and Light

 The Limits of Modernism: Minimalism

 Complex Unities: Photography and Minimalism

 

Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century

 ?The Quiet Unbroken Wave?: The Later Work of Wright and Le Corbusier

 Purity and Proportion: The International Style in America

 Internationalism Contextualized: Developments in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia

 Breaking the Mold: Experimental Housing

 Arenas for Innovation: Major Public Projects

 

Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art

 Art as Language

 Conceptual Art as Cultural Critique

 The Medium Is the Message: Early Video Art

 When Art Becomes Artist: Body Art

 Radical Alternatives: Feminist Art

 Erasing the Boundaries between Art and Life: Later Feminist Art

 Invisible to Visible: Art and Racial Politics

 

Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists

 Metaphors for Life: Process Art

 Big Outdoors: Earthworks and Land Art

 Public Statements: Monuments and Large-Scale Sculpture

 Body of Evidence: Figurative Art

 Animated Surfaces: Pattern and Decoration

 Figure and Ambiguity: New Image Art

 

Chapter 24: Postmodernism

 Postmodernism in Architecture

 ?Complexity and Contradiction?: The Reaction Against Modernism Sets In

 In Praise of ?Messy Vitality?: Postmodernist Eclecticism

 Ironic Grandeur: Postmodern Architecture and History

 What Is a Building?: Constructivist and Deconstructivist Architecture

 Structure as Metaphor: Architectural Allegories

 Flexible Spaces: Architecture and Urbanism

 Postmodern Practices: Breaking Art History

 

Chapter 25: Painting through History

 Primal Passions: Neo-Expressionism

 Searing Statements: Painting as Social Conscience

 In the Empire of Signs: Neo-Geo

 The Sum of Many Parts: Abstraction in the 1980s

 Taking Art to the Streets: Graffiti and Cartoon Artists

 Painting Art History

 

Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience

 Commodity Art

 Postmodern Arenas: Installation Art

 Strangely Familiar: British and American Sculpture

 Reprise and Reinterpretation: Art History as Art

 New Perspectives on Childhood and Identity

 The Art of Biography

 Meeting Points: New Approaches to Abstraction

 

Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization

 Lines That Define Us: Locating and Crossing Borders

 Skin Deep: Identity and the Body

 Occupying the Art World

 Globalization and Arts Institutions