1920-1945 The Artistic Culture between the Wars: 02 (Art of the Twentieth Century) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8876248048 ISBN 13: 9788876248047

Publisher: Skira Editore, 2007

Synopsis

This series offers a complete, up-to-date survey of the phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium through an original, transversal and interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture in the twentieth century. The second volume analyses and presents the hugely diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars, taking into consideration not only the environment that took shape in the immediate wake of the First World War, from the so-called "return to order" to the re-emergence of a figurative approach (The New Objectivity, Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism) that was profoundly anti-avant-garde yet imbued with strong plastic and semantic values, but also the evolution of an avant-garde that was now historicised, with its second-generation artists (Aerial Painting, the second generation of Futurism). Also considered are the codification of certain phenomena, such as Surrealism, changes in taste (from Art Deco to Novecentismo), as well as art as the expression of the totalitarian regimes, and the outbreak of the Second World War, with the embracing of environments outside Europe, particularly the USA. The chronological boundaries are marked by the birth of the Dadaist experience in Germany and the establishment of Metaphysics in Italy (1917- 1920) on one side and by the birth of the great season of U.S. Abstract Expressionism (1943-1945) on the other.

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HardCover. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 448 in Publisher: Skira Editore This second volume in the Art of the Twentieth Century series analyzes and presents the diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars. beginning with the environment that took shape in. the immediate wake of World War I.The Artistic Culture Between the Warsis an interdisciplinary survey of this period's changing artistic climate that included the re-emergence of a figurative approach (the New Objectivity). and the evolution of an avant-garde that is now historicized by its second-generation artists. Also considered are phenomena such as Surrealism. the change in taste from Art Deco to Novecentismo. and the expression of the totalitarian regimes during the outeak of World War II. The book's chronological boundaries stretch from the birth of the Dada in Germany to the birth of Abstract Expressio...

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Beginning with a narrative on American art, tradition, and the avant-garde, and ending with discussion of surrealism and abstract expressionism, this is the second volume of "Art of the Twentieth Century"--a five-volume project covering art history in chronological segments since 1900. Signed essays offer discussion of artists' writings and critica

About this edition

• Publisher: Skira Editore
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8876248048
• ISBN 13: 9788876248047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Valerio Terraroli