Art Since 1900: 1900-1944

Résumé du livre

Five art historians combined their talents to produce an art survey reference that is lively and fun owing in part to its unusual (perhaps unique) approach and organization. The first edition was published in 2004. This second edition is revised, expanded, and brought up to date. Offering context and establishing a foundation are four introductory essays on psychoanalysis in modernism, the social history art, formalism and structuralism, and poststructuralism and deconstruction. Following are 122 entries each pertaining to one year and consisting of a summary statement about important events of that year followed by an essay of several pages explicating those events and their significance. Some years have more than one entry, and some years are skipped--but readers can turn page after page to follow the highlights from 1900 through 2010. The entries are abundantly illustrated (744 illustrations, 510 in color), affording a visual journey relevant to the themes and artists under consideration. In the end matter is a transcription of a round table discussion by the authors on "the predicament of contemporary art," a thoughtfully prepared glossary, a subject-organized bibliography, and a selective list of websites (general information, image banks, museums, artists and movements websites, online dictionaries, and online journals and publishers). The long list of picture credits testifies to the amount of work that goes into assembling a survey such as this. Indexing is thorough. The authors are affiliated as follows: Hal Foster, Yve-Alain Bois, and David Joselit (Princeton U.); Rosalind Krauss (Columbia U.); and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh (Harvard U.). The volume measures 9x11". Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)