Modern art 1870-2000 : Impressionism to today
Holzwarth, Hans Werner2015
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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 organizing 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 1870-2000 : Impressionism to today / Hans Werner Holzwarth.
Author:
Imprint:
Koln : Taschen, 2015.
Collation:
680 pages : illustrations.
ISBN:
9783836555395 (hbk)3836555395 (hbk)
Dewey class:
709.04 HOL709.04
LC class:
N6447
Language:
English
BRN:
290295