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Title The age of modernism : art in the 20th century / edited by Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal ; essays by Brooks Adams ... [and others] ; co-ordinating editors, Gerti Fietzek and Henry Meyric Hughes
Published Lstfildern-Ruit [Germany] : g. Hatje ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the US by distributed Art Publishers, [1997]
©1997

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Description 672 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Contents The age of modernism / Christos M. Joachimides -- A century of self-analysis : philosophy in search of an identity / Arthur C. Danto -- A self-critical modernity or Europe's century nears its end / Wolf Lepenies -- Presentation off duty and depoliticised revolution : philosophical remarks on art and politics / Odo Marquard -- Questions to a broken mirror / Norman Rosenthal -- Masks or identities? / Shearer West -- Purity and belief : the lure of abstraction / Anna Moszynska -- Like smoke : a Duchampion legacy / Brooks Adams -- Magic realities, dream, myth, fiction / Wieland Schmied -- The premisses of modern art / Stephen Bann -- The two utopias / Beat Wyss -- The will to totality / Boris Groys -- Art outside the museum / Robert C. Morgan -- Art and media / Dieter Daniels -- For Waldo : an essay on art criticism / Peter Schjeldahl
Notes Catalog of an exhibition held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 7 May - 27 July 1997
Portions of text translated from the German
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Art) -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Adams, Brooks.
Joachimides, Christos M.
Rosenthal, Norman.
Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
LC no. 97216262
ISBN 3775706720 (German edition)
3775706828