Modern Art Painting.Sculpture.Architecture

• Main Author: Hunter, Sam 1923-2014 (Author)
• Other Authors: Jacobus, John M. (co-author), Wheeler, Daniel (co-author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Harry N. Abrams 2000
• Edition: Third Revised Edition
• Subjects: Art, Modern > 19th century; Art, Modern > 20th century
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• Physical Description: 448 pages some colour illustrations 30 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-444) and index
• ISBN: 0810943832; 013924705X; 9780810943834

Almost a half century ago, the painter Willem de Kooning said: "There's no way of looking at a work of art by itself; it's not self-evident-it needs a history, it needs a lot of talking about." The great works of modern art get talked about in this highly literate narrative overview, which traces modernism's radical essence-from its origins in the late 19th century right through the 1990s-with thoroughness, zest, and an engaging sense of adventure. he Revised Third Edition of this popular text contains four substantial new chapters-illustrated by some 200 new plates, most in full color-depicting "a new fin de sicle almost exactly one hundred years after the revolutionary works of Czanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh left no doubt that the art of the 20th century would be unlike anything known before."