The short story of modern art : a pocket guide to movements, works, themes & techniques
2019
Book
The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works - from the realist painting of Courbet to a contemporary installation by Yayoi Kusama - and then links them to the most important movements, themes and techniques. Accessible, concise and richly illustrated, the book reveals the connections between different periods, artists and styles, giving readers a thorough understanding and broad enjoyment of modern art.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781786273697
Description: 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Other Title: Pocket guide to key movements, works, themes and techniques
Notes: Includes index.
Contents:
- Movements
- Realism
- Impressionism
- Post-Impressionism
- Neo-Impressionism
- Art Nouveau
- American Realism
- Modernism
- Fauvism
- Exp-essionism
- Naive Art/Primitivism
- Cubism
- Futurism
- Orphism
- Metaphysical Painting
- Constructivism
- Suprematism
- Dada
- Neo-Plasticism
- Bauhaus
- Magic Realism
- Surrealism
- Abstract Expressionism
- Colour Field
- Spatialism
- Neo-Dada
- Op Art
- Pop Art
- Hard-Edge Painting/Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Fluxus
- Arte Povera
- Post-Modernism
- Conceptual Art
- Performance Art
- Feminist Art
- Minimalism
- Land Art
- Street Art
- Neo-Expressionism
- School of London
- Young British Artists (YBAs)
- The Works
- The Artist's Studio, Gustave Courbet
- La Gare Saint-Lazare, Claude Monet
- The Thinker, Auguste Rodin
- Bar at the Folies-Bergere, Edouard Manet
- Portrait of Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Wheat Field with Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh
- Evening Calm, Paul Signac
- Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!), Henri Rousseau
- Arearea, Paul Gauguin
- The Card Players, Paul Cezanne
- Madonna, Edvard Munch
- The Turning Road (L'Estaque), Andre Derain
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Gustav Klimt
- Les Demoiselles d Avignon, Pablo Picasso
- Mademoiselle Pogany, Constantin Brancusi
- Bicycle Wheel, Marcel Duchamp
- Berlin Street Scene, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Prismes Electriques, Sonia Delaunay-Terk
- The Song of Love, Giorgio de Chirico
- Armoured Train in Action, Gino Severini
- Black Square, Kazimir Malevich
- Monument to the Third International, Vladimir Tatlin
- The Tilled Field, Joan Miro
- In the Bright Oval, Wassily Kandinsky
- Automat, Edward Hopper
- The Treachery of Images, Rene Magritte
- Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, Georgia O'Keeffe
- Composition in White, Red and Yellow, Piet Mondrian
- Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, Frida Kahlo
- Pelagos, Barbara Hepworth
- Alchemy, Jackson Pollock
- Tree of Life, Henri Matisse
- Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Richard Hamilton
- 1957, #20, Mark Rothko
- Three Flags, Jasper Johns
- Spatial Concept ̀Waiting', Lucio Fontana
- Campbell's Soup Cans, Andy Warhol
- Shuttle II, Bridget Riley
- Untitled (12 Horses), Jannis Kounellis
- Self-Portrait with Blood, Ana Mendieta
- TV Cello, Nam June Paik
- Untitled (Black Skull), Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Three Ball 50/50 Tank (Two Spalding Dr.} Silver Series, Wilson Supershot), Jeff Koons
- Reflection (Self-Portrait), Lucian Freud
- Away from the Flock, Damien Hirst
- The Matter of Time, Richard Serra
- Maman, Louise Bourgeois
- Bangkok VI, Andreas Gursky
- Levitated Mass, Michael Heizer
- All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, Yayoi Kusama
- Themes
- The Figure
- Animals
- Nature
- Landscape
- Portraits
- Still Life
- Light
- Time
- Dynamism
- Colour
- Shape and Line
- Abstraction
- Memory
- Music
- Patriotism
- Industrialization
- Urban Environment
- Socializing
- The Holocaust
- Religion
- Social Commentary
- Consumerism
- Transformation
- Self/Identity
- Race
- Gender
- Techniques
- Drawing
- Bronze Casting
- Oil on Canvas
- Impasto
- Pointillism
- Pastel
- Lithography
- Woodcut
- Stone Carving
- Wood Carving
- Collage
- Mixed Media
- Readymade
- Assemblage
- Gouache
- Automatism
- Enamel Paint
- Encaustic
- Screen-Printing
- Acrylic
- Industrial Materials
- Spray Paint
- Photography
- Video Art.
Control Number: 2748256
Publisher: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2019.Subjects:
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