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
Omschrijving
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
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: H. Arnason
- Uitgever: Pearson Education (US)
- Imprint: Pearson
- Verschijningsdatum: 2013-03-06
- Aantal pagina's: 832
- ISBN: 9780205259472
- Thema: History of art
- BISAC: ART / History / General
Over de auteur
Elizabeth C. Mansfield is Vice President for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She has taught art history at New York University and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee . A scholar of modern European art and art historiography, her publications include books and articles on topics ranging from the origins of modernism to Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon to the contemporary performance and body art of Orlan. Her 2007 book Too Beautiful to Picture : Zeus, Myth, and Mimesis was awarded the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey book prize.
The late H.H. Arnason was a distinguished art historian, educator, and museum administrator who for many years was Vice President for Art Administration of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. He began his…