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The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new. This astoundingly thorough survey of art's modern era showcases all of the key artistic movements of the 20th century, from Fauvism to Pop Art, featuring illustrative examples of some of the most renowned works of the era along with illuminating companion essays by expert critics and art historians. A vivid window into the collective psyche of the modern world's great artists, Art of the 20th Century is a must-have for any fan of contemporary art.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
41Nouveaux Réalistes
2Introduction: A New View of the World – Technology and the Natural Sciences Change the Mechanistic World View
42Concrete Art
3Expression and Fragmentation
43Op-Art and Kinetics: The View from the Centre
4Matisse and the Wild Beasts in Paris: The Fauves and the Autonomy of Colour
44Pop Art
5Paula Modersohn-Becker and Tranquillity in Worpswede
45Nouvelle Figuration and New Realism
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6Futurism: The Dynamisation of the Image
46Photorealism
7Expressionism and the Search for Contemporary Form
47A Long Intermission: What You See Is What You See
8Cubism, Materiality, and Collage
48Minimal Art
9Abstractions
49Conceptual Art
10The Russian Avant-Garde
50Sensitisation of the Senses
11De Stijl: The Uniformity of the Painting Surface
51Campaigns, Happenings, Fluxus
12The Bauhaus
52Joseph Beuys
13One Turn of the Screw Tighter During World War I
53Arte Povera: Organic Energy
14Dada and Its Surroundings
54Natural Processes
15Explosive Visual Language
55Spurensicherung: Material Memory
16Veristic Tendencies
56Land Art: Ethereal Energies
17Surreal and Magical: Between the World Wars
57Upheaval and Awakening
18Pittura Metafisica
58From the ‘60s to the ‘80s
19Surrealism
59The New Expressivity
20Magical Realism and the New Objectivity
60Painting as Painting – An Everlasting Language
21Degenerate Art
61Media
22Sculpture in the First Half of the 20th Century
62Video and New Media
23First Steps
63Photography: A Brief Look Back and Ahead
24The Fragmentation of Shape
64In the Wake of the Turn of the Millennium: Unknown Possibilities
25Material Constructions
65Sculpture and Readymades
26Bauhaus and De Stijl
66Painting and Installations toward the End of the Millennium
27Readymade and Surreal Objects
67Architecture in the Second Half of the 20th Century
28Homogenous as Nature
68The First Two Decades after World War II
29Concrete
69Cultural Buildings from the Late ‘50s to the Mid-’70s
30Architecture in the First Half of the 20th Century
70Further Development of the Skyscraper: Four Examples
31An Introductory Note
71Parisian Cultural Buildings in the François Mitterrand Period
32The U.S.A.
72Postmodernism and Deconstruction
33Europe During the First Two Decades
73A New Sensibility
34The ‘30s: Moscow, San Francisco, Nuremberg
74Berlin after Reunification
35New Beginnings on the International Scene after World War II
75Architecture in the New Millennium
36The Realists
76A Brief Look Back and Ahead
37New York and Abstract Expressionism
77The Gigantic Dimensions of Architecture in the Emirates
38Europe and Abstract Expressionism
78The Future: Subtle Architecture
39Abstract Expressionist Sculpture
79Conclusion
40The Sixties: Close to Real Life
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