This present publication provides a comprehensive critical history of art in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. 

Adopting a unique year-by-year approach, Foster, Krauss, Bois, and Buchloh present more than 50 short essays, each focusing on a crucial event—the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, the opening of a major exhibition—to tell the story of the dazzling diversity of practice and interpretation that characterizes the art of the period. All the 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. More than 600 illustrations, many reproduced in full color, accompany the texts.

The book's flexible structure and extensive cross-referencing allow readers to follow any one of the many narratives that unfold, 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 the important figures and issues.

In their introductions, the four authors explain the different methods of art history at work in the book, providing the reader with the conceptual tools for further study. A roundtable discussion at the close of the book considers the questions raised by the preceding decades and look ahead to the art of the future. A glossary of terms and concepts completes this volume.

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Onsite

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REF.FOH
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2004

No of pages

704

ISBN / ISSN

0500238189

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introductions

1. Psychoanalysis in Modernism and as Method

2. The Social History of Art: Models and Concepts

3. Formalism and Structuralism

4. Poststructuralism and Deconstruction

Art Since 1900 - Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
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