Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

Visual Arts in the 20th Century Edward Lucie-Smith

Visual Arts in the 20th Century By Edward Lucie-Smith

Visual Arts in the 20th Century by Edward Lucie-Smith


$11.21
Condition - Good
Only 1 left

Summary

Rather than presenting 20th-century visual arts as merely a succession of various styles, this history of the century of modernism goes beyond to examine the historical, social, and intellectual contexts that have surrounded and supported individual creativity.

Faster Shipping

Get this product faster from our US warehouse

Visual Arts in the 20th Century Summary

Visual Arts in the 20th Century by Edward Lucie-Smith

Appropriate for courses in Modern Art Survey.

In this lucid and coherent history of the century of modernism, renowned art writer Edward Lucie-Smith approaches his material in an innovative way. Rather than presenting 20th-century visual arts as merely a succession of various styles, he goes beyond to examine the historical, social, and intellectual contexts that have surrounded and supported individual creativity.

Table of Contents



Introduction.


1. Before 1900.

The Social and Intellectual Background. The Industrial Background. The Romantic Movement. Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto. Charles Baudelaire and "The Painter of Modern Life." Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. The Symbolist Movement.

Architecture

Technical Innovation. Responses to New Social Needs. Louis Sullivan. Art Nouveau and the Search for Aesthetic Unity. Victor Horta and Antonio Gaudi. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Edwin Lutyens.

Painting.

The New Exhibiting Societies. The Great Forerunners. Vincent van Gogh. Paul Gauguin and the Cult of the Primitive. Gauguin in the South Seas. Paul Cezanne. Edvard Munch. The Nabis. Henri de Toulouse-Loutrec. Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

Sculpture.

Auguste Rodin. Medardo Rosso. The Position of Women Artists.

Photography.

The Birth of the Snapshot Camera. Photography as a Profession. Documentary Photography. Pictorialist Photography. The Importance of the "Amateur" Photographer. Subject-Matter and Pictorialist Photography.

Keyworks: Georges Seurat: La Grande Jatte. Augusste Rodin: The Gates of Hell.

2. 1900-1909.

Technological Advances. International Tensions.

Architecture

Architecture in the United States. The Greene Brothers and Bernard Maybeck. The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Architecture in Europe. Otto Wagner. Josef Hoffman. Peter Behrens and AEG.

Painting

Painting in Europe. The Survival of Art Nouveau: Gustav Klimt. Picasso: The Blue Period. Henri Rousseau, called Le Douanier. The Fauves. Henri Matisse. Cubism. Paula Modershn-Becker. Die Brucke. The Russian Avant-grade. Painting in the United States. The Ashcan School.

Sculpture.

The Painter-Sculptors and Maillol.

Photography

Pictorialism. Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession. Alternatives to Pictorialism.

Keyworks: Peter Behrens: The Turbine Factory. Pablo Picasso: La Vie.

3. 1910-1919.Architecture.

Architecture in the United States. Rannk Loyd Wright and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Architecture in Europe. Alfred Loos and Peter Behrens.

Painting.

The Invention of College. Synthetic Cubism: Juan Gris. Minor Cubists. Orphism: Robert Delaunnay. Sonia Delaunay-Terk. Der Blaue Reiter. Franz Marc. Gabrielle Munter Kandinsky and the Birth of Abstraction. Futurism. Futurism and Photography. The Russian Avant-grade: Gubo-Futurism. Malevich and Suprematism. Constructivism. DeStijl. Piet Mondrian's Early Work. The War Years. Dada: Marcel Duchamp. Zurich and the Cabaret Vultaire. Berlin Dada. Pittura Metafysica. Painting in the United States. The Armory Show.

Sculpture:

Cubist and Futurist Sculpture. Constantin Brancusi and Amedeo Modigliani.

Photography.

The Reaction against Pictorialism.

Keyworks: Vassily Kandinsky: Composition IV. Marcel Duchamp: Fountain.

4. 1920-1929.

Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Weimar Republic.

Architecture.

Architecture in Europe. The Netherlands: JJP Oud. Germany: The Bauhaus Architects. France: Le Corbusier. Architecture in the United States.

Painting.

Painting in Europe. The Artists of the Cote d'Azur. The Classical Revival. Italy: The Rise of Fascism. The Netherlands: Piet Mondrian and NeoPlasticism. The Soviet Union: developments in Constructivism. Germany: The Bauhaus. Germany: The Neue Sachlichkeit. Germany: Max Beckmann. Germany: Kurt Schwitters. Painting in the United States. Pecisionism. Stuart Davis and American Cubism. Painting in Latin America. Brazil: Tarsila do Amaral. Modernism in Argentina. The Beginnings of Mexican Muralism. The Birth of the Surrealist Movement. Max Ernst. Rene Magritte and Joan Miro. Tge /ecike de Oarus, Chaim Soutine. Marie Laurencin and Tamara de Lempicka.

Sculpture.

Sculpture in Europe. Classicism and Decorative Cubism. Naum Gabo. Kathe Kollwitz and Ernst Barlach.

Photography.

Experimental Techniques. The Alienated Eye. Documentary Photography.

Keyworks: Walter Gropius: The Bauhaus. Georgia O'Keeffe: The Shelton with Sunspots.

5. 1930-1939.Architecture in Europe.

Architecture in Europe. Italy. The Soviet Union. Germany. Alvar Alto and the Scandinavian tradition. Architecture in the United States. Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s.

Painting.

"Realist" Painting. Painting and National Socialism. Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union. Mexican Muralism. Regionalism in the United States. Urban and Social Realism in the United States. Edward Hopper. Balthus. Yannis Tsarouchis. Non-Realist Painting: Surrealism and Abstraction. Salvador Dali and Veristic Surrealism. Picasso's Guernica. Surrealism versus Geometric Abstraction.

Sculpture.

Developments in Sculpture. Picasso and Julio Gonzalex. The Early Work of Alberto Giacometti. Jean Arp. Henry Morre and Barbara Hepworth. Alexander Calder.

Photography.

A Change of Climate. The American Depression and the Spanish. Civil War. Henri Cartier-Bresson. John Hertfield and Hans Bellmer.

Keyworks: Jose Clemente Orozco: Murals in the Hospicio Cabanas. Pablo Picasso: Guernica.

6. 1940-1949.Architecture.

A Change of Climate. Architecture in the United States. Architecture in Europe. Architecture in Latin America.

Painting.

Painting in the Americas. Matta and Wifredo Lam. Arshile Gorky. Adolph Gottlieb. Jackson Pollock and Clyford Still. Painting in France. Francis Gruber. Jean Fautrier. Jean Dubuffet. Wols. Expressionism in Northern Eruope. D> The Cobra Group. Painting in Great Britain. Stanley Spencer. Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon. Painting Latin America. Joaquin Torres-Garcia. The Madi Group in Buenos Aires. Mexico: Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo.

Sulpture.

Sculpture in the United States. Isamu Noguchi. Sculpture in Europe. Alberto Giacometti and Germaine Richier. Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzuu.

Photography.

Photography and the War. Weegee in New York. Visionary Photographers.

Keyworks: Arshile Gorky: Garden in Soci. Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait.

7. 1950-1959.

Existentialism.

Architecture.

The Dominance of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. Le Carbusier at Chandigarh. the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut. Bruce Goff and the Bavinger House. Eero Saarinen and Jorn Utzon. The New Brutalism. Japan and Mexico.

Painting.

Painting in the United States. The Developement of Abstract Expressionism: Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. Han Hofmann and Willem de Kooning. Barnett Newman. Morris Louis. Jasper Johns and Rober Rauschenberg. Larry Rivers and Grace Hartigan. Bay Area Figuration. Painting in Europe. Modernist Old Masters. "Art Autre" Against "Art Autre": Nicolas de Stael and Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Figuarative Painting in Great Britain. The Gutai Group in Japan.

Sculpture.

Sculpture in the United States. David Smith and John Chamberlain. Louise Nevelson. Sculputre in Europe. Eduardo Chillida and Cesar. Eduardo Paolozzi and Elisabeth Frink.

Photography.

"The Family of Man." Robert Frank.

Keyworks: Franz Kline: Mahoning. David Smith: Tank Totem V.

8. 1960-1969.Architecture.

Archigram. Robert Venturi and James Stirling. Louis Kahn and the Kimbell Museum.

Painting.

Pop Art in Great Britain. Richard Hamilton. Peter Blake and David Hockney. R.B. Kitaj. American Pop Painting. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Pop in California. The hairy Who. Pop Painting in Continental Europe. Pop Painting in Latin America. Other American Painting. Photorealism. Minimal Abstraction: Frank Stella. Robert Ryman and Agner Marti. Optical Painting. Joseph albers. Bridget Riley. The Revival of Figurative Painting in Europe. Georg Baselitz. Frank Auerbach. Other Movements of the Sixties. Expressionism in Latin America. Argentina and "Otra Figuraction." "New Realism" in France and Yves Klein. Piero Manzoni.

Sculpture, Conceptual Art, and Performance.

Assemblage. anthony Caro. Minimal Sculpture. Earth Art. Conceptual Art: Joseph Kosuth. Kinetic Art. Dan Flavin. Anti-Form. The Pop Object. George Segal. Funk Art: Edward Kienholz. Christo's and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Building. Happenings and Actions. The Direct Action Group. Fluxus.

Photography.

A Change of Climate. Eliot Porter. Subjectivity in the Streets. Diane Arbus. The Manipulated Image.

Keyworks: Roy Lichtenstein: Whaam! Donald Judd: Untitled 1967.

9. 1970-1979.Architecture.

Populism, Classicism, and Nationalism. Italy and Spain. A Return to the Vernacular: Belgium, Great Britain, and France. "High-Tech" Architecture. Postmodern Classicism in Europe. Postmodern Classicism in the United States. The Early Work of Frank Gehry. SITE and Deconstruction. The General Situation of the Visual Arts Avant-garde. The Challenge to Traditional Forms. The Influence of International Exhibitions. The Craft Rivival.

Painting.

Lucian Freud. Alice Neel. Susan Rothenberg. Anselm Kiefer. Philip Guston. African-American Art. The New Mural Movement in the United States.

Sculpture, Environments, and Performance.

Vita Acconci and Dennis Oppenheim. Joseph Beuys. Bruce Nauman. Hans Haacke. The Art of Light and Space. Imaginary Archaeology. Arte Povera. Conceptual Art in Argentina. British Sculpture. Super Realis Sculpture. Feminist Art. Magdalena Abakanowicz. Video and Nam June Paik.

Photography.

Bernd and Hiller Becher. William Eggleston. Robert Mapplethorpe.

Keyworks: Richard Rogers and Renzo Paino: Pompidou Center. Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party.

10. 1980-1989.Architecture.

An Expansive Climate. "Les Grands Projets." Jean nouvel's Institut du Monde Arabe. Michael Graves. Quinlan Terry. Arata Isozaki. Modernist Mannerism. Deconstruction: Further Developments. Maya Ling Lin.

Painting. The Revival of Painting.The Italian Trans-Avantgarde. Painting in the United States. American "Bad" Painting. Elizabeth Murray and Jennifer Barlett. Paula Rego. Other American Painters. Neo-Geo. The New Classicism. Painting in Europe.British Figurative Painting. the Art of "Perestroika." France: Jean Rustin.
Sculpture.

British Sculpture. Richard Deacon. Anish Kapoor. Antony Gormley. Gilbert and George. American Sculpture. Jeff Koons. Martin Puryear. Environmental and Conceptual Art. Robert Gober. Sculpture in the Soviet Union.

Photography.

Cindy Sherman. Joel-Peter Witkin.

Keyworks: Arata Isozaki: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Jean Rustin: Woman Putting Her Hand in a Man's Mouth.

11. 1990-1995.Architecture.

The Groninger Museum. Zaha Hadid.

Painting.

Appropriation. Gay Art. New Painting in China. New African Painting. Australian Aboriginal Art. Modern Maori Painting.

Sculpture, Environmental Works, and Video.

Louise Bourgeois. Rebecca Horn. Artist' Video. Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread. Karen Finley. Orlan. Yukinori Yanagi and Wenda Gu.

Photography.

Andres Serrano.

Conclusion.

Keyworks: Yu Youhan: Aao and Blonde Girl Analyzed. Damien Hirst: The Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.

Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Additional information

CIN0134944364G
9780134944364
0134944364
Visual Arts in the 20th Century by Edward Lucie-Smith
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
1996-10-24
402
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Visual Arts in the 20th Century