HARRISON CHARLES

(P/B) PRIMITIVISM CUBISM ABSTRACTION (0300055161)

(H/B) SINCE 1950
In these essays on late twentieth-century art and the critical perspectives it has generated, Charles Harrison offers a particularly compelling and finely argued analysis of the seismic shift that took place when the modernist formalism that had underpinned thinking about art in the first half of the century came to be seen as a spent force. The shift occurred in the wake of the international triumph of American Abstract Expressionist painting in the 1950s - painting that to many at the time seemed to mark the very apogee of modernist abst...
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(P/B) MODERNISM
This series provides the most authoritative and accessible introductions available to the key art movements of the past 150 years. Modernisation, modernity and modernism - three concepts around which thought about the modern world and its culture has tended to revolve. But what is modernism? The term is used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the modernist tendency has often been associated with the most vital developments and highest achievements i...
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