Bedford Public Library

History of modern art, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, H.H. Arnason, Elizabeth C. Mansfield

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

History of modern art

bibliography

H.H. Arnason, Elizabeth C. Mansfield

painting, sculpture, architecture, photography

The origins of modern art -- The search for truth: early photography, realism, and impressionism -- Post-impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Expressionism -- The new century: experiments in color and form -- Expressionism in Germany -- Cubism -- Early-twentieth -century architecture -- European responses to Cubism -- Picturing the wasteland: Western Europe during World War I -- Art in France after World War I -- Clarity, certainty, and order: de Stijl and the pursuit of geometric abstraction -- Bauhaus and the teaching of modernism -- Surrealism and its discontents -- American art before World War II -- Abstract Expressionism and the new American sculpture -- Postwar European art -- Nouveau Realisme and pop art -- Playing by the rules: sixties abstraction -- Modernism in architecture at mid-century -- Conceptualism and activist art -- Post-minimalism -- Postmodernism -- Painting through history -- Contemporary art and the renegotiation of modernism -- Contemporary art and globalization