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Pub. Date
2023.
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"How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch...
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Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2021.
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"ArtQuake introduced 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. Causing fascination and intrigue in some, repulse and scorn in others, these cutting-edge totems celebrated novelty and innovation and defined twentieth-century art. From Gustave Courbet's The Bathers (1853) to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917); Yves Klein's Anthropology Performance (1960) to Judy Chicago's The Dinner...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative art critic of his generation, Hilton Kramer advanced his comments and judgments largely in the form of essays and short pieces. Thus, this first collection of his work to appear in twenty years is a signal event for the art world and for criticism generally.
“The Triumph of Modernism” not only traces the vicissitudes of the art scene but diagnoses the state of modernism and its vital legacy in the...
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Taschen
Description
The century that changed art forever: The quintessential roundup of art from 1900-2000 Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available,...
11) Modernism
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
c1997
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An introduction to modernist art of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, discussing the defining characteristics of the movement, and examining examples of paintings and sculptures done in the modernist tradition.
13) Museum town
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Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. MASS MoCA is the largest museum for contemporary art in the world, but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be? A testament to tenacity and imagination, Museum Town traces...
