Product Description

The 3rd revised and enlarged edition of this introduction to modern art in the WORLD OF ART series, which now includes a new essay, POSTMODERNISM AND THE ART OF IDENTITY which brings the story of modern art right up to the present.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65675 in Books
• Published on: 1994-07-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

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`The publishing house has rarely put a foot wrong in its 60-year history' --GQ

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`You will refer back to these precious books again and again'

From the Back Cover
No other book on modern and contemporary art presents in as authoritative and concise a manner the ideas that underlie the diverse and radical developments of the last hundred years. In this new edition, an imprortant essay, 'Postmodernism and the Art of Identity', not only brings the story of modern art right up to the present, but also introduces the unexpected development of returning to art the day-to-day meaning it may have lost, through engagement with issued raised in the representation of gender, sexuality and AIDS. In other essays by some of the most internationally acclaimed writers on art, the extraordinary challenges of twentieth-century art art introduced and discusssed with unparalleled lucidity, intelligence and factual accuracy. 'A useful and mercifully jargon-free introduction to a very complex subject' (Richard Cork).

Customer Reviews

Good but there exists better!
This book gives a good account of contemporary art, but if you are looking for a thorough account of contemporary art than Art in Theory: 1900-1990, is the best.
This book does not gives as much information and documents as the other one, so I only give four stars to it.