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The art of modernism : art, culture, and society from Goya to the present day
Kunst der Moderne. English
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"The Art of Modernism is an in-depth analysis of the period from the 1790s to the 1990s. It follows the parallel developments in science, philosophy, politics, and social history of the twentieth c...
"The Art of Modernism is an in-depth analysis of the period from the 1790s to the 1990s. It follows the parallel developments in science, philosophy, politics, and social history of the twentieth century, underlining the interconnecting facets in the various disciplines." "The Art of Modernism not only includes extensive research on styles and movements from the nineteenth century to the present day, but also covers details on the life and works of the important artists of the period."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Sandro Bocola
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- English
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- Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [1999]
- ©1999
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- 616 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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- 9783791321462, 3791321463
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- ocm43492274
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 594-606) and index.
- The End of the Modern Era. 1. A Historical Overview. 2. The 19th-Century View of the World and of the Human Being. 3. The Art of the 19th Century -- Pictorial Reality and the Beginnings of Modernism. 1. The Reality of Perception. 2. The Reality of Order. 3. The Reality of Emotion. 4. The Reality of the Irrational -- Invisible Reality and the Aesthetics of Universality. 1. Universality as Timelessness and Indivisibility: 'Naive' and 'Primitive' Art. 2. The Universal as a Structure: from Cubism to Neoplasticism. 3. Universality as Energy: from Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism -- The New Paradigm in the World-View of the Modernist Era. 1. The World-View of Modern Physics. 2. The Psychoanalytic View of the Human Being. 3. The Social Revolution -- Crisis and Renewal. 1. On the Essence of the Classical. 2. Art as Riddle: Marcel Duchamp and the Onset of Absurdity. 3. The Confrontation with Progress. 4. Attempted Cures: Modern Baroque -- The Political Revolt Against the Modernist Idea. 1. National Socialism. 2. The Second World War -- Triumph and Consummation. 1. Mystic Fusion through Ecstasy and Meditation: Abstract Romanticism. 2. The Medium is the Message: Modern Realism. 3. The Ideology of the Impersonal: Abstract Classicism. 4. Magic and Ritual: Modern Symbolism. 5. Taking Stock -- The Loss of Reality: The End of Modernism. 1. A Historical Overview. 2. The Narcissistic Crisis. 3. The Art of the Post-Modern Era -- Prospects