Modern Art In The Usa

Author : Patricia Hills
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 0130361380

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Modern Art in the USA by Patricia Hills Pdf

This chronologically organized and comprehensive anthology of readings tells the whole story of art in America from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the themes, issues, and controversies that occurred throughout the century--using selections that are contemporary with the art--by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, politicians, and other writers on culture. Some recurring themes and issues include issues of identity; the changing nature of modernism and modernity; nationalism; art as individual or community expression; the nature of public art; and the role of criticism, censorship, and government intervention. Texts by well-known writers include Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Donald Kuspit, and Kate Linker. A guide for those interested in both the standard interpretations of American art and in alternative readings.

Author : Sidra Stich,University Art Museum Berkeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520057562

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Made in U.S.A. by Sidra Stich,University Art Museum Berkeley Pdf

Made in U.S.A. takes a new look at American art of the 1950s and 1960s and shows us how American it was. This is a provocative study of those artists who appropriated everyday images form the world of mass media and suburban living and forced their viewers into a sometimes witty, sometimes bittersweet, confrontation with the realities of living in late twentieth-century America.

Author : Katy Siegel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232386

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Since '45 by Katy Siegel Pdf

Since ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would come to have. Tracing art history over the past decades, she shows how anxieties over race, mass culture, the individual, suburbia, apocalypse, and nuclear destruction have supplanted the legacy of European artistic traditions. Siegel’s study encompasses a variety of works, including Rothko’s planes of color, Warhol’s serial silkscreens, Richard Prince’s cowboys, Robert Longo’s Men in Cities, Faith Ringgold’s Black Light, and Laurie Simmons’s dollhouses, and moves fluidly from discussions of artists’ works, art museums, and galleries to cultural influences and significant historical events. Rather than arguing on nationalist grounds or viewing American culture as representative of a now-devalued nation, Siegel explores how American culture dominated not only American artists but created conditions that now, after the full globalization of the art world, affect artists around the world. Since ’45 will interest all readers engaged in post-war and contemporary art in the United States and beyond.

Author : William C. Agee
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714875244

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Modern Art in America 1908-68 by William C. Agee Pdf

A radical re-evaluation of American modernism through four generations of artists and their work – now in paperback. "That rarity of rarities, an opinionated but not eccentric scholarly history by a veteran museum curator whose every page crackles with original thinking and bears the stamp of a preternaturally sharp eye? Excellent reproductions and crisp typography complement the lucid prose." —Wall Street Journal Twentieth-century art in America has long been understood in two very separate distinct halves: pre-World War II, often considered as inferior and provincial; and the triumphant, international post-war work that made a complete break with everything that went before. Agee discovers exciting new connections between artists and artworks, which strongly suggest that 1945 was not such a dividing line in art history after all. His fresh research offers an innovative approach and a brilliant take on art history.

Author : Cesar Aira
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701867

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On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira Pdf

Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira’s dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question—from reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. In the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge between writing and art that he set out to construct in the first place, flailing as we try to make sense of where we stand. Aira’s On Contemporary Art exemplifies what the ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing—exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects, and objects shape our words. Like the great writers Walter Benjamin and Hermann Broch before him, Aira operates in the space between fiction and essay writing, art and analysis. Pursuing questions about reproducibility, art making, and limits of language, Aira’s unique voice adds new insights to the essential conversations that continue to inform our understanding of art.

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106001411484

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Modern Art USA by Rudi Blesh Pdf

Author : Serge Guilbaut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226791845

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How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art by Serge Guilbaut Pdf

"A provocative interpretation of the political and cultural history of the early cold war years. . . . By insisting that art, even art of the avant-garde, is part of the general culture, not autonomous or above it, he forces us to think differently not only about art and art history but about society itself."—New York Times Book Review

Author : Ludwig Mie Van,Mies van der Rohe Archive
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0824059980

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The Mies Van Der Rohe Archive by Ludwig Mie Van,Mies van der Rohe Archive Pdf

This is a thorough revision, brimming with new material, of Franz Schulze's classic biography about architect Mies van der Rohe. The consensus among architectural historians is that Schulze s book is the bestand most authoritativeone ever written (not to mention the only biography) about Mies, who introduced the International Style to America and established Chicago and IIT as a hub of mid-century modern design."

Author : Katherine Manthorne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187299

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Film and Modern American Art by Katherine Manthorne Pdf

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. This book explores modern painting as a response to, and an appropriation of, the aesthetic possibilities pried open by cinema from its invention until the outbreak of World War II, when both the art world and the film industry changed substantially. Artists were watching movies, filmmakers studied fine arts; the membrane between media was porous, allowing for fluid exchange. Each chapter focuses on a suite of films and paintings, broken down into facets and then reassembled to elucidate the distinctive art–film nexus at successive historic moments.

Author : Charles Saumarez Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500022436

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The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith Pdf

A compelling examination of the art museum from a renowned director, this sweeping book explores how architecture, vision, and funding have transformed art museums around the world over the past eighty years. How have art museums changed in the past century? Where are they headed in the future? Charles Saumarez Smith is uniquely qualified to answer these questions, having been at the helm of three major institutions over the course of his distinguished career. For The Art Museum in Modern Times, Saumarez Smith has undertaken an odyssey, visiting art museums across the globe and examining how the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it. His story starts with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the first museums to focus squarely on the art of the present rather than the past. When it opened in 1939, MoMA’s boldly modernist building represented a stark riposte to the neoclassicism of most earlier art museums. From there, Saumarez Smith investigates dozens of other museums, including the Tate Modern in London, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He explores our shifting reasons for visiting museums, changes to the way exhibits are organized and displayed, and the spectacular new architectural landmarks that have become destinations in their own right. Global in scope yet full of personal insight, this fully illustrated celebration of the modern art museum will appeal to art lovers, museum professionals, and museum goers alike.

Author : Hossein Amirsadeghi,Maryam Eisler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780500970539

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Art Studio America by Hossein Amirsadeghi,Maryam Eisler Pdf

Large-format and illustrated with original photography: a fresh look at the current scene for art lovers and a unique introduction to the art world for the novice For centuries, America's permutations of climate and landscape and its tantalizing suggestion of unlimited possibilities have inspired some of history's greatest minds to embark on both literal and imaginary journeys of exploration, none more so than its visual artists. Contrasting intimate visits to artists' studios with explorations of the country's sweeping landscapes of light and form that have inspired artists since the Luminists and the Hudson River School, here is a privileged look at the dreams, ideas, and thoughts of more than one hundred American artists who are active today. From established figures such as Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Francesco Clemente Chuck Close, John Currin, Rachel Feinstein, Richard Prince, Robert Irwin, Kiki Smith, Bill Viola, and Lawrence Weiner to members of the new guard, including Diana Al-Hadid, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, and Sterling Ruby, this profusely and beautifully illustrated journey through artists' studios provides an unprecedented look into the workings of one of the world's largest artistic communities. From New York's skyline to Southern California's sunny boardwalks, Art Studio America will embolden readers the chance to embark on transformative journeys of their own. The book includes essays by Robert Storr, Mark Godfrey, and Ben Genocchio.

Author : David R. Beasley
Publisher : Davus Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art museum curators
ISBN : 9780915317097

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Douglas MacAgy and the Foundations of Modern Art Curatorship by David R. Beasley Pdf

From formative years in Toronto and Philadelphia, MacAgy became the catalyst for the advent of American abstraction, the spirit behind the modern art movement, the introducer and interpreter of European and Russian art to America, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the installer of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He was on the cutting edge of modern art movements from American abstract expressionism to conceptualism and fought as an independent educator against the forces using art for political ends. “MacAgy has a place in history,”—George Rickey.

Author : Lloyd Goodrich,Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000012052929

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Pioneers of Modern Art in America by Lloyd Goodrich,Whitney Museum of American Art Pdf

A selection of paintings from this exhibition was circulated by the American Federation of Arts, 1946-47.

Author : Richard R. Brettell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 019284220X

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Modern Art, 1851-1929 by Richard R. Brettell Pdf

In a bold new look at the Modern Art era, Brettell explores the works of such artists as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as well as lesser-known figures--in relation to expansion, colonialism, national and internationalism, and the rise of the museum. 140 illustrations, 75 in color.

Author : Wendy Weitman,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870700774

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Pop Impressions Europe/USA by Wendy Weitman,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Essay by Wendy Weitman.