| Description |
368 pages : 281 illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword : the unification of the world in art -- I. The awakening of archaic and primitive cultures -- The unity of early and late -- Between myth and utopia -- Archetype and dream in art -- The resurrection of the red and black gods -- II. Signs of the east -- III. Metaphors of the human image -- Literature and form -- The amorphous and the archaic -- IV. Dream image and the landscape of the unconscious -- The dark background of existence -- The unknown and hidden -- V. Individualism and collectivism -- Creativity and the amsses -- The conscience of art in the industrial age -- Humanism and myths of reconciliation -- Liberation from the object, release from form -- Poetry and reality -- The ligature and freedom of tonality -- The road to abstraction -- VII. Antiart and the new reality -- The return to the natural and the unnatural -- Dada and neo-dada -- A change of climate in art -- Fine pop art and the new realism -- VIII. Art in a technological age -- Invention of the object -- Sculptors, architects, engineers -- Archaic and technical optics -- Light and dynamics -- IX. Breaking through the visual barrier -- The reflection of the scientific world picture -- The opened horizon -- Boundaries and synthesis |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [361]-362 |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Art criticism.
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| LC no. |
66013270 |
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