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Subject(s)

• Art, Modern—20th century—History—Encyclopedias [Browse]

Summary note

With over 500 illustrations, including many from the prestigious Centre Georges Pompidou collection, this work will prove an invaluable and accessible guide for students and for all those wanting to explore the most tumultuous years in art history.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Fauvism: from objects to signs
• Cubism: from image to language
• Cubism: from static to dynamic
• Sculpture, 1880-1914: from monument to readymade
• Architecture 1890-1914: from ornamentation to simplicity
• Expressionism: between figure and abstraction
• Dada: between war and peace
• Surrealism: from The Manifesto to exile
• Classicisms and realisms: between order and model
• Abstraction and constructivism: geometry and utopia
• Sculptures, assemblages, constructions: spatial languages
• Architecture, 1915-1939: rationalism and modernism
• The United States: from abstract expressionism to minimalism
• Europe, 1939-1970: painting from image to tool
• The real in question: pop art, nouveau realisme, fluxus and the happening
• Sculpture, 1939-1970: between form and gesture
• Architecture, 1944-2000: after modernism
• Art today: the situation and its risks
• Design: things-a user's guide
• Photographs: the memory of the gaze
• Cinema, video: moving image projections and installations.

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ISBN

2080105647

OCLC

59539913

RCP

H - S

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