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Author Arnason, H. H., 1909-1986.

Title A history of modern art : painting, sculpture, architecture, photography / H. H. Arnason
Edition Fifth ed / Peter Kalb, revising author, fifth edition
Published Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2003
©2004

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Description xv, 832 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Contents The sources of modern painting -- Realism, impressionism, and early photography -- Post-Impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art Nouveau and the beginnings of expressionism -- The origins of modern sculpture -- Fauvism -- Expressionism in German -- The figurative tradition in early twentieth-century sculpture -- Cubism -- Futurism, abstraction in Russia, and de Stijl -- Early twentieth-century architecture -- From fantasy to Dada and the new objectivity -- The school of Paris after World War I -- Surrealism -- Modern architecture between the wars -- International abstraction between the wars -- American art before World War II -- Abstract expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European art -- Pop art and Europe's new realism -- Sixties abstraction -- The second wave of international style architecture -- The plualistic seventies -- Postmodernism in architecture -- The retrospective eighties -- Resistance and resolution
Summary "Arnason's History of Modern Art remains the definitive source of information on the art of the modern era from Modernism's mid-nineteenth-century European beginnings to today's divergent art trends. Now full color throughout, this Fifth Edition contains new headings, subheadings, and a glossary to help the reader navigate the material and quickly identify areas of interest. The entire text has been carefully edited for greater clarity, narrative coherence, and scholarly currency."--Jacket
Analysis Art, Modern 19th century
Art, Modern 20th century
Notes Previous ed. 1998
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 776-798
Subject Art, Modern -- 19th century.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Author Kalb, Peter.
ISBN 013184105X hardback