The Shock of The New - Softcover

Hughes, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070311277 ISBN 13: 9780070311275

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1991

Synopsis

This authoritative, lively book, based on the BBC Time-Life television series, provides a comprehensive survey of the birth and development of modern art and an updated discussion of the European and American art movements in the 70s and 80s including minimalist and public art, 70s American painting, German Neo-Expressionism, art by women, and environmental art. "The Future that Was," the final chapter, is completely rewritten and updated. 75% of the 275 illustrations in the revised edition are in 4-color.

About this title

Review:

`You will refer back to these precious books again and again'

About the Author:

Robert Hughes has been an art critic for Time magazine since 1970. His eight-part BBC/Time-Life television series, on which this book is based, has been broadcast throughout the United States on public television. He has received the Franklin Jewett Mather Award for Distinguished Criticism from the College Art Association of America twice, and he has authored the Art of Australia (1966); Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1969); and Nothing If Not Critical (1990), a collection of essays on art and artists.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0070311277
• ISBN 13: 9780070311275
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448