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Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Third editionDescription: 896 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780500239537
  • 0500239533
Other title:
  • Art since nineteen hundred
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N 6490 FOS
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Psychoanalysis in modernism and as method HF -- social history of art: models and concepts BB -- Formalism and structuralism YAB -- Poststructuralism and deconstruction RK -- Globalization, networks, and the aggregate as form DJ -- 1900 -- 1909 -- 1900a Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams: in Vienna, the rise of the expressive art of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka coincides with the emergence of psychoanalysis -- 1900b Henri Matisse visits Auguste Rodin in his Paris studio but rejects the elder artist's sculptural style -- 1903 Paul Gauguin dies in the Marquesas Islands In the South Pacific: the recourse to tribal art and primitivist fantasies In Gauguin influences the early work of Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Box: The exotic and the naive --
Summary: Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, the authors present 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present. All the key turning-points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions. This expanded edition includes a new introduction on the impact of globalization, as well as essays on the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer art, South African photography, and the rise of the new museum of art. Acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of art in the modern age.
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Previous edition: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Psychoanalysis in modernism and as method HF -- social history of art: models and concepts BB -- Formalism and structuralism YAB -- Poststructuralism and deconstruction RK -- Globalization, networks, and the aggregate as form DJ -- 1900 -- 1909 -- 1900a Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams: in Vienna, the rise of the expressive art of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka coincides with the emergence of psychoanalysis -- 1900b Henri Matisse visits Auguste Rodin in his Paris studio but rejects the elder artist's sculptural style -- 1903 Paul Gauguin dies in the Marquesas Islands In the South Pacific: the recourse to tribal art and primitivist fantasies In Gauguin influences the early work of Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Box: The exotic and the naive --

1906 Paul Cezanne dies at Alx-en-Provence in southern France: following the retrospectives of Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat the preceding year, Cezanne's death casts Postimpressionism as the historical past, with Fauvism as its heir -- Box: Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group -- 1907 With the stylistic inconsistencies and primitivist impulses of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso launches the most formidable attack ever on mimetic representation -- Box: Gertrude Stein -- 1908 Wilhelm Worringer publishes Abstraction and Empathy, which contrasts abstract art with representational art as a withdrawal from the world versus an engagement with It: German Expressionism and English Vorticism elaborate this psychological polarity in distinctive ways -- 1909 F.T. Marinetti publishes the first Futurist manifesto on the front page of Le Figaro in Paris: for the first time, the avant-garde associates itself with media culture and positions itself in defiance of history and tradition -- Box: Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey -- 1910 -- 1919 -- 1910 Henri Matisse's Dance II and Music are condemned at the Salon d'Automne in Paris: in these pictures, Matisse pushes his concept of the "decorative" to an extreme, creating an expansive visual field of color that is difficult to behold -- 1911 Pablo Picasso returns his "borrowed" Iberian stone heads to the Louvre Museum in Paris from which they had been stolen: he transforms his primitivist style and with Georges Braque begins to develop Analytical Cubism -- Box: Guillaume Apollinaire -- 1912 Cubist collage Is Invented amid a set of conflicting circumstances and events: the continuing inspiration of Symbolist poetry, the rise of popular culture, and Socialist protests against the war In the Balkans -- 1913 Robert Delaunay exhibits his "Windows" paintings in Berlin: the initial problems and paradigms of abstraction are elaborated across Europe -- 1914 Vladimir Tatlin develops his constructions and Marcel Duchamp proposes his readymades, the first as a transformation of Cubism, the second as a break with It; in doing so, they offer complementary critiques of the traditional mediums of art -- Box: The "Peau de I'Ours" -- 1915 Kazimir Malevich shows his Suprematist canvases at the "0.10" exhibition In Petrograd, thus bringing the Russian Formalist concepts of art and literature Into alignment -- 1916a In Zurich, the international movement of Dada is launched in a double reaction to the catastrophe of World War I and the provocations of Futurism and Expressionism -- Box: Dada journals -- 1916b Paul Strand enters the pages of Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work: the American avant-garde forms Itself around a complex relationship between photography and the other arts -- Box: The Armory Show -- 1917a After two years of intense research Piet Mondrian breaks through to abstraction and goes on to invent Neoplasticism -- 1917b In October 1917, the journal De Stijl is launched by Theo van Doesburg in the small Dutch town of Leiden. It appears monthly until 1922, after which publication Is irregular. The last issue dates from 1932 as a posthumous homage to van Doesburg shortly after his death In a Swiss sanatorium -- 1918 Marcel Duchamp paints Turn': his last ever painting summarizes the departures undertaken In his work, such as the use of chance, the promotion of the readymade, and photography's status as an "index" -- Box: Rrose Selavy -- 1919 Pablo Picasso has his first solo exhibition in Paris In thirteen years: the onset of pastiche in his work coincides with a widespread antimodernist reaction -- Box: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russe: box Rappel a I'ordre -- 1920 -- 1929 -- 1920 The Dada Fair is held in Berlin: the polarization of avant-garde culture and cultural traditions leads to a politicization of artistic practices and the emergence of photomontage as a new medium -- 1921a With Three Musicians, Pablo Picasso enlists the classicism of Nicolas Poussin in the development of Synthetic Cubism, the reigning style of postwar modernism -- 1921b The members of the Moscow Institute of Artistic Culture define Constructivism as a logical practice responding to the demands of a new collective society -- Box: Soviet institutions -- 1922 Hans Prinzhorn publishes Artistry of the Mentally III; the "art of the insane" is explored in the work of Paul Klee and Max Ernst -- 1923 The Bauhaus, the most influential school of modernist art and design in the twentieth century, holds its first public exhibition in Weimar, Germany -- 1924 Andre Breton publishes the first issue of La Revolution surrealiste, establishing the terms of Surrealist aesthetics -- Box: Surrealist journals -- 1925a While the Art Deco exhibition in Paris makes official the birth of modern kitsch, Le Corbusier's machine aesthetics becomes the bad dream of modernism and Aleksandr Rodchenko's Workers' Club advocates a new relationship between men and objects -- Box: Black Deco -- 1925b Curator Gustav F. Hartlaub organizes the first exhibition of Neue Sachlichkeit painting at the Kunsthalle, Mannheim: a variation of the international tendencies of the rappel a l'ordre, this new "magic realism" signals the end of Expressionism and Dada practices in Germany -- 1925c Oskar Schlemmer publishes The Theater of the Bauhaus, presenting the mannequin and the automaton as models of the modern performer; other artists, especially women involved in Dada, explore the allegorical potential of the doll and the puppet -- 1925d On May 3, a public screening of avant-garde cinema titled "The Absolute Film" Is held in Berlin: on the program are experimental works by Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, Walter Ruttmann, and Fernand Leger that continue the project of abstraction by filmic means -- 1926 El Lissitzky's Demonstration Room and Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau are installed in Hanover, Germany: the architecture of the museum as archive and the allegory of modernist space as melancholia are dialectically conceived by the Constructivist and the Dadaist -- 1927a After working as a commercial artist in Brussels, Rene Magritte joins the Surrealist movement In Paris, where his art plays on the idioms of advertising and the ambiguities of language and representation -- 1927b Constantin Brancusi produces a stainless-steel cast of The Newborn: his sculpture unleashes a battle between models of high art and industrial production, brought to a head in the US trial over his Bird in Space -- 1927c Charles Sheeler is commissioned by Ford to document its new River Rouge plant: North American modernists develop a lyrical relation to the machine age, which Georgia O'Keeffe extends to the natural world -- Box: MoMA and Alfred H. Barr, Jr -- 1928a The publication of "Unism in Painting" by Wladyslaw Stzreminski, followed in 1931 by a book on sculpture he coauthored with Katarzyna Kobro, The Composition of Space, marks the apogee of the internationalization of Constructivism -- 1928b The publication of Die neue Typographie by Jan Tschichold confirms the Impact of the Soviet avant-garde's production on book design and advertising In capitalist Western European countries, and ratifies the emergence of an international style -- 1929 The "Film und Foto" exhibition, organized by the Deutscher Werkbund and held in Stuttgart from May 18 to July 7, displays a spectrum of International photographic practices and debates: the exhibition demarcates a climax in twentieth-century photography and marks the emergence of a new critical theory and historiography of the [ect.] -- 1930 -- 1939 -- 1930a The introduction of mass consumer and fashion magazines In twenties and thirties Weimar Germany generates new frameworks for the production and distribution of photographic imagery and helps foster the emergence of a group of Important women photographers -- 1930b Georges Bataille reviews L'Art primitif in Documents, making apparent a rift within the avant-garde's relation to primitivism and a deep split within Surrealism -- Box: Carl Einstein -- 1931a Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, and Andre Breton publish texts on "the object of symbolic function" in the magazine Le Surrealisme au service de la revolution: Surrealism extends its aesthetic of fetishism and fantasy Into the realm of object-making -- 1931b As Joan Miro reaffirms his vow to "assassinate painting" and Alexander Calder's delicate mobiles are replaced by the stolid stabiles, European painting and sculpture display a new sensibility that reflects Georges Bataille's concept of the "formless" -- 1933 Scandal breaks out over the portrait of Lenin by Diego Rivera in the murals for the Rockefeller Center: the Mexican mural movement produces public political mural work In various American locations and establishes a precedent for political avant-garde art in the United States -- 1934a At the First All Union Congress of Writers, Andrei Zhdanov lays down the doctrine of Soviet Socialist Realism.
1934b In "The Sculptor's Aims," Henry Moore articulates a British aesthetic of direct carving In sculpture that mediates between figuration and abstraction, between Surrealism and Constructivism -- 1935 Walter Benjamin drafts "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Andre Malraux initiates "The Museum without Walls," and Marcel Duchamp begins the Boite-en-Valise: the Impact of mechanical reproduction, surfacing Into art through photography, is felt within aesthetic theory, art history, and art [ect.] -- 1936 As part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and other photographers are commissioned to document rural America in the grip of the Great Depression -- Box: Works Progress Administration -- 1937a The European powers contest one another in national pavilions of art, trade, and propaganda at the International Exhibition In Paris, while the Nazis open the "Degenerate `Art'" exhibition, a vast condemnation of modernist art, In Munich -- 1937b Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson, and Leslie Martin publish Circle in London, solidifying the institutionalization of geometric abstraction -- 1937c Pablo Picasso unveils Guernica in the Spanish Republican pavilion of the International Exhibition in Paris -- 1940 -- 1944 -- 1942a The depoliticization of the American avant-garde reaches the point of no return when Clement Greenberg and the editors of Partisan Review bid farewell to Marxism -- 1942b As World War II forces many Surrealists to emigrate from France to the United States, two shows in New York reflect on this condition of exile in different ways -- Box: Exiles and emigres -- Box: Peggy Guggenheim -- 1943 James A. Porter's Modern Negro Art, the first scholarly study of African-American art, is published In New York as the Harlem Renaissance promotes race awareness and heritage -- 1944a Piet Mondriandies, leaving unfinished Victory Boogie Woogie, a work that exemplifies his conception of painting as a destructive enterprise -- 1944b At the outbreak of World War II, the "Old Masters" of modern art -- Matisse, Picasso, Braque, and Bonnard -- consider their refusal to flee occupied France as an act of resistance against barbarity: discovered at the Liberation, the style they had developed during the war years presents a challenge to the new generation of [ect.] -- Roundtable: Art at mid-century -- 1945 -- 1949 -- 1945 David Smith makes Pi/ar of Sunday: constructed sculpture is caught between the craft basis of traditional art and the industrial basis of modern manufacturing -- 1946 Jean Dubuffet exhibits his "hautes pates," which confirm the existence of a new scatological trend in postwar French art, soon to be named "informel" -- Box: Art brut -- 1947a Josef Albers begins his "Variant" paintings at Black Mountain College In North Carolina a year after Laszlo Moholy-Nagy dies in Chicago: Imported to the United States, the model of the Bauhaus is transformed by different artistic Imperatives and institutional pressures -- 1947b The publication of Possibilities in New York marks the coalescence of Abstract Expressionism as a movement -- 1949a Life magazine asks its readers "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?": the work of Jackson Pollock emerges as the symbol of advanced art -- 1949b Cobra, a loose band of young artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, launches Its eponymous magazine, in which they advocate a return to "the vital source of life"; meanwhile in England, the New Brutalists propose a bare aesthetic adequate to the austere conditions of the postwar [ect.] -- 1950 -- 1959 -- 1951 Barnett Newman's second exhibition fails: he is ostracized by his fellow Abstract Expressionists, only later to be hailed as a father figure by the Minimalist artists -- 1953 Composer John Cage collaborates on Robert Rauschenberg's Tire Print: the indexical imprint is developed as a weapon against the expressive mark in a range of work by Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Cy Twombly -- 1955a In their first exhibition in Tokyo, the artists of the Gutai group propose a new reading of Jackson Pollock's drip canvases that engages with traditional Japanese aesthetics and interprets the phrase "action painting" in a literal sense -- 1955b The "Le mouvement" show at the Galerie Denise Rene in Paris launches kineticism -- 1956 The exhibition "This is Tomorrow" In London marks the culmination of research into postwar relations between art, science, technology, product design, and popular culture undertaken by the Independent Group, forerunners of British Pop art -- 1957a Two small vanguard groups, the Lettrist International and the Imaginist Bauhaus, merge to form the Situationist International, the most politically engaged of all postwar movements -- Box: Two theses from The Society of the Spectacle -- 1957b Ad Reinhardt writes "Twelve Rules for a New Academy": as avant-garde paradigms in painting are reformulated in Europe, the monochrome and grid are explored in the United States by Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin, and others -- 1958 Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces appears on the cover of Artnews magazine: for some artists like Frank Stella, Johns presents a model of painting in which figure and ground are fused in a single Image-object; for others, he opens up the use of everyday signs and conceptual ambiguities [ect.] -- Box: Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 1959a Lucio Fontana has his first retrospective: he uses kitsch associations to question idealist modernism, a critique extended by his protege Piero Manzoni -- 1959b At the San Francisco Art Association, Bruce Conner shows CHILD, a mutilated figure in a high chair made in protest against capital punishment: a practice of assemblage and environment is developed on the West Coast by Conner, Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz, and others that is more scabrous than its equivalents in New York, Paris, or [ect.] -- 1959c The Museum of Modern Art in New York mounts "New Images of Man": existentialist aesthetics extends into a Cold War politics of figuration in the work of Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, and others -- Box: Art and the Cold War -- 1959d Richard Avedon's Observations and Robert Frank's The Americans establish the dialectical parameters of New York School photography -- 1959e The Manifesto of Neoconcrete Art is published in Rio de Janeiro as a double spread of the daily newspaper Jornal do Brasil, replacing the rationalist Interpretation of geometric abstraction that was prevalent at the time with a phenomenological one -- 1960 -- 1969 -- 1960a Critic Pierre Restany organizes a group of diverse artists in Paris to form Nouveau Realisme, redefining the paradigms of collage, the readymade, and the monochrome -- Box: The neo-avant-garde -- 1960b Clement Greenberg publishes "Modernist Painting": his criticism reorients itself, and in its new guise shapes the debates of the sixties -- Box: Leo Steinberg and the flatbed picture plane -- 1960c Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol start to use cartoons and advertisements as sources for paintings, followed by James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, and others: American Pop art is born -- 1961 In December, Claes Oldenburg opens The Store in New York's East Village, an "environment" that mimicked the setting of surrounding cheap shops and from which all the Items were for sale: throughout the winter and the following spring, ten different "happenings" would be performed by Oldenburg's Ray Gun Theater in The Store [ect.] -- 1962a In Wiesbaden, West Germany, George Maciunas organizes the first of a series of international events that mark the formation of the Fluxus movement -- 1962b In Vienna, a group of artists including Gunter Brus, Otto Muhl, and Hermann Nitsch come together to form Viennese Actionism -- 1962c Spurred by the publication of The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863 -- 1922 by Camilla Gray, Western interest revives in the Constructivist principles of Vladimir Tatlin and Aleksandr Rodchenko, which are elaborated in different ways by younger artists such as Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, and [ect.] -- Box: Artforum -- 1962d Clement Greenberg is the first to acknowledge the abstract side of early Pop art, a characteristic that would feature time and again in the work of its leading proponents and those who followed them -- 1963 After publishing two manifestos with the painter Eugen Schonebeck, Georg Baselitz exhibits Die Grosse Nacht im Eimer (Great Night Down the Drain) in Berlin -- 1964a On July 20, the twentieth anniversary of the failed Stauffenberg coup against Hitler, Joseph Beuys publishes his fictitious autobiography and generates an outbreak of public violence at the "Festival of New Art" in Aachen, West Germany -- 1964b Thirteen Most Wanted Men by Andy Warhol is installed, momentarily, on the facade of the State Pavilion at the World's Fair in New York -- 1965 Donald Judd publishes "Specific Objects": Minimalism receives its theorization at the hands of its major practitioners, Judd and Robert Morris -- Box: Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 1966a Marcel Duchamp completes his installation Etant Donnes in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: his mounting influence on younger artists climaxes with the posthumous revelation of this new work -- 1966b The exhibition "Eccentric Abstraction" opens in New York: the work of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Yayoi Kusama, and others points to an expressive alternative to the sculptural language of Minimalism -- 1967a Publishing "A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey," Robert Smithson marks "entropy" as a generative concept of artistic practice in the late sixties -- 1967b The Italian critic Germano Celant mounts the first Arte Povera exhibition.

Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, the authors present 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present. All the key turning-points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions. This expanded edition includes a new introduction on the impact of globalization, as well as essays on the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer art, South African photography, and the rise of the new museum of art. Acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of art in the modern age.

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