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Art Since 1900
Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism
Hal Foster,
Princeton University
Rosalind Krauss,
Columbia University
Yve-Alain Bois,
Institute for Advanced Study
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Harvard University
Volume 1, 1900–1944
ISBN 0-500-28534-9
paperback
352 pages
316 illustrations, 210 in color
Volume 2, 1945–2003
ISBN 0-500-28535-7
paperback
424 pages
364 illustrations, 236 in color
Volumes 1 & 2 together
0-500-28543-8
2005 publication
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OVERVIEW
In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art
historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. The authors adopt a unique year-by-year approach to present more than one hundred
short essays, each focusing on crucial events—the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic
manifesto, the opening of a major exhibition—that tell the story of the dazzling diversity of practice and
interpretation that characterize the art of this period.
All the turning points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the
frequent and sustained antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions of art and the world.
Illustrating the authors' texts are more than 600 of the most important works of the century, most reproduced
in full color.
The book's flexible structure and extensive cross-referencing allow readers to follow any one of the many
narratives that unfold, whether that be the history of a medium such as photography or painting, the development
of art in a particular country, the influence of a movement such as surrealism or feminism, or the emergence of a
stylistic or conceptual category like abstraction or minimalism. Boxes give further background information on the
important figures and issues.
In their insightful introductions, the four authors explain the different methods of art history at work in the book,
providing the reader with the conceptual tools for further study.
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Book overview
Table of Contents
Introductions
How to use this book
Preface
Sample Chapters
Quotes
Slide Sets
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