Questa serie si addentra nel mondo dinamico dell'arte moderna, esplorando i suoi artisti, stili e correnti intellettuali fondamentali. Ogni volume offre uno sguardo acuto sull'evoluzione del linguaggio visivo che ha plasmato il XX e il XXI secolo. I lettori possono aspettarsi analisi approfondite di movimenti rivoluzionari, dall'Impressionismo alle pratiche contemporanee. Si pone come una guida essenziale per chiunque sia affascinato dal panorama in continua evoluzione dell'espressione artistica.
Futurism, brainchild of the Italian writer and impresario, F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. This book traces it from its origins in dissident underground politics in 1909 to its ultimately fatal relationship with Mussolini's regime between the wars.
Neo-expressionism - The anti-aesthetes - Postmodern feminism - Postmodern multiculturalism - Commodity critics
In this incisive study, the curator and writer Debra Bricker Balken examines the work of the leading artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. At the same time she examines the myths surrounding the movement, the variation in the motivation and practice of artists grouped by art historians under the same heading, and the role played by critics in the movement's reception, both at the time and up to the present day.Of equal value to the general reader and the art historical scholar alike, Balken's text is a valuable addition to the literature on one of the most influential of all twentieth-century art movements.
A collective adventure begun by a small group of intellectuals in Paris in the early 1920s, amongst them Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali, Surealism's influence was felt through the rest of continenal Europe and in Britain, the Americas, Mexico, and Japan. This introduction documents how the artists met, the relationship of Surrealism to Dada, and the influences that informed the movement, particularly the work of Sigmund Freud. The position of women, as Surrealist subject mater as well as artists in their own right, is also examined.
Minimalism was one of the most exciting developments in the art of the 1960s. Although the artists involved did not regard themselves as a group, the work is typically abstract, modular, preconceived in design and industrial in execution.