Modern art
2016
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The modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, often impasto, strokes. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the establishment salon by organising their own independent exhibitions. After this first assault on standard academic practice, there was no holding back. In a constant desire to challenge, innovate, and inspire, one modernist style supplanted the next: Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Abstract Art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art. This overview traces the restless energy of modern art with a year-by-year succession of the groundbreaking artworks that shook standards, and broke down barriers.
Main title:
Modern art / with essays by Dietmar Elger [and ten others] ; editor Hans Werner Holzwarth ; editor, Laszlo Taschen.
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Imprint:
Köln : Taschen, [2016]©2016
Collation:
693 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: in 2 volumes. 2011.Includes index.
ISBN:
9783836555395 (hbk)
Dewey class:
709.04
LC class:
N6447
Language:
English
BRN:
1536893
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