Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism - Hardcover

Hal Foster; Rosalind Krauss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500238189 ISBN 13: 9780500238189

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2004

Synopsis

Four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Adopting a year-by-year approach, the present more than one hundred (c.3,000 words) essays, each focusing on a crucial event such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, or the opening of a major exhibition to tell the story of the period from 1900 to the present. All the key turning points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent and sustained antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions of art and the world.Two roundtable discussions one at mid-century, the other at the close of the book consider some of the questions raised by the preceding decades and look ahead to the art of the future.

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Synopsis:

In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the 20th and 21s centuries, an age when artists have sought constantly to overturn the traditions of the past and expectations of the present in order to invent new practices and forms. Adopting an innovative year-by-year approach, Foster, Krauss, Bois and Buchloh present more than one hundred short essays, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the story of the dazzling diversity of practice and interpretation that characterized the art of the period. All the key turning-points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent and sustained antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions of art and the world. Illustrating the authors' fine texts are more than six hundred of the most important works of the century, most reproduced in full colour.

The book's flexible structure and extensive cross-referencing allow readers to plot their own course through the book and to follow any one of the many narratives that unfold through the century, whether that be the history of a medium such as photography or painting, the development of art in a particular country, the influence of a movement such as Surrealism or feminism, or the emergence of a stylistic or conceptual category like abstraction or minimalism. Boxes give further background information on some of the important figures and issues surrounding the art. In their perceptive introductions, the four authors set out and explain the different methods of art history at work in the book, providing the reader with the conceptual tools to further his or her own study. Two roundtable discussions - one at mid-century, the other at the close of the book - consider some of the questions raised by the preceding decades and look ahead to the art of the future. A glossary of terms and concepts completes this extraordinary volume.

About the Author:

Hal Foster is Townsend Martin Professor of Art at Princeton University. Rosalind Krauss in Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University, New York. Yve-Alain Bois is the Joseph Pulitzer, Jr Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University. Benjamin Buchloh is professor of 20th-century and contemporary art and theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0500238189
• ISBN 13: 9780500238189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 704