Varieties of modernism /
Series: Art of the 20th century (Yale University Press) ; bk. 3.Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Open University, ©2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmISBN:- 0300101422
- 9780300101423
- 0300102968
- 9780300102963
- N6494.M64 V37 2004
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
I: The European avant-garde in the 1930s -- Art in Paris in the 1930s / Emma Barker -- Surrealism's other side / Niru Ratnam -- II: Art in America: from realism to abstraction -- Realism and modernism / Pam Meecham -- Jackson Pollock / Charles Harrison -- Abstract expressionism and masculinity / Fionna Barber -- III: American modernism in the 1960s -- The critical terrain of 'high modernism' / Gail Day, Chris Riding -- Minimalism's situation / Ann Reynolds -- Vernacular modernism / Steve Edwards -- IV: The resumption of the avant-garde -- The 'neo-avant-garde' / Paul Wood -- How New York queered the idea of modern art / Gavin Butt -- Warhol's 'factory': painting and the mass-cultural spectator / John Roberts -- In search of a revolutionary consciousness: further adventures of the European avant-garde / Robert Graham.
This work discusses the art of the middle third of the twentieth century. It consists of a short general introduction and four parts, each concentrating on a key aspect of the art of the period.