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Modern Architecture: The Basics (The Basics)
by Graham LiveseyModern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century. Broad definitions of modernity and postmodernity introduce the book, which comprises 24 short thematic chapters looking at the concepts behind the development of modern and postmodern architecture. These include major historical movements, key figures, and evolving building typologies. There is also an emphasis on the changing city during the 19th and 20th centuries. Approaches to representation and its impacts on architecture are studied, along with the changing global role of architecture as cultural expression. The book introduces new topics, including gender, race, postcolonialism, and indigeneity. An undaunting, contemporary, and inclusive account of modern architectural history, this is a must-read for all students of architecture as well as those outside the discipline approaching the subject for the first time.
Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World
by Jonathan GlanceyA pocket-size visual guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age from around the world
Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World
by Jonathan GlanceyA pocket-size visual guide to the great buildings and structures of the modern age from around the world
Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World
by Jonathan GlanceyExplore over 500 masterpieces of modern architecture in this celebration of the most iconic buildings in the world. Written by acclaimed architecture expert Jonathan Glancey, Modern Architecture is a beautifully illustrated guide to the key styles, architects and movements that have defined our skylines since the dawn of the twentieth century. From the dizzying heights of the Shard to the exquisite curves of the Sydney Opera House, and from Frank Lloyd Wright to Sir David Adjaye, this is the essential handbook to the creative discipline that shapes our world.'His comments are always informative, unashamedly partisan and often enjoyably tart' – Sunday Telegraph'One of the finest architectural writers in contemporary Britain' – Scotland on Sunday
Modern Art
by Sam Hunter John M. Jacobus Daniel WheelerRichly illustrated and clearly focused, this book surveys the genesis, development, and culmination of modern European/American painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art--from Post-Impressionism through the most recent developments in the 1990s. It avoids the typical encyclopedic approach of surveys in favor of examining selected but highly representative works in greater depth and from an enlarged spectrum of critical discourse. Organized along chronological lines, topics explore the ideas, forms, events, artists, and works--with each chapter devoted to a style, movement, or decade--from Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and Van Gogh through Minimalism and the general reaction known as Post-Modernism. Ideal for readers with a general interest in art.
Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition
by Emmelyn Butterfield-RosenHow artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernism, transforming our understanding of the era’s canonical works. Butterfield-Rosen analyzes a hitherto unexamined formal phenomenon in European art: how artists departed from conventions for posing the human figure that had long been standard. In the decades around 1900, artists working in different countries and across different media began to present human figures in strictly frontal, lateral, and dorsal postures. The effect, both archaic and modern, broke with the centuries-old tradition of rendering bodies in torsion, with poses designed to simulate the human being’s physical volume and capacity for autonomous thought and movement. This formal departure destabilized prevailing visual codes for signifying the existence of the inner life of the human subject. Exploring major works by Georges Seurat, Gustav Klimt, and the dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky— replete with new archival discoveries—Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition combines intensive formal analysis with inquiries into the history of psychology and evolutionary biology. In doing so, it shows how modern understandings of human consciousness and the relation of mind to body were materialized in art through a new vocabulary of postures and poses.
Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Arts And Humanities Ser.)
by Francis FrascinaModern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of works of art, it is also a history of ideas interpretations. The works of critics and theorists have not merely been influential in deciding how modern art is to be seen and understood, they have also influenced the course it has taken. The nature of modern art cannot be understood without some analysis of the concept of Modernism itself.Modern Art and Modernism presents a selection of texts by the major contributors to debate on this subject, from Baudelaire and Zola in the nineteenth century to Greenberg and T. J. Clark in our own times. It offers a balanced section of essays by contributors to the mainstream of Modernist criticism, representative examples of writing on the themes of abstraction and expression in modern art, and a number of important contributions to the discussion of aesthetics and the social role of the artist. Several of these are made available in English translation for the first time, and others are brought together from a wide range of periodicals and specialized collections.This book will provide an invaluable resource for teachers and students of modern art, art history, and aesthetics, as well as for general readers interested in the place of modern art in culture and history.
Modern Art And The Grotesque
by Frances S. ConnellyFrances Connelly examines how the concept of the "grotesque" has influenced the history, practice, and theory of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The grotesque has been adopted by a succession of artists as a way to push beyond established boundaries; explore alternate modes of experience and expression; and challenge the status quo. Examining specific images by a range of artists, such as Ingres, Gauguin, Höch, de Kooning, Polke, and Mona Hatoum, these essays encompass a variety of media--including medical illustration, paintings, prints, photography, multimedia installations, and film.
Modern Art And The Object: A Century Of Changing Attitudes, Revised And Enlarged Edition
by Ellen H. JohnsonThis book is devoted to a reexamination of modern art from the point of view of the artist's approach to the object. It chronicles the complex, changing relationship between art and the object over the past hundred years; a fundamental organicism relationship as one thing grows out of another.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: 110 Masterworks
by Andrea Kames Mark Thistlethwaite Michael AupingIn honour of the Modern Art Museum's 110th anniversary and the inauguration of the striking new building in Fort Worth, designed by the famous Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, 110 artists have been specifically chosen for inclusion in this highly illustrated publication.
Modern Art and the Death of a Culture
by H. R. RookmaakerThis disturbing but illuminating classic is a brilliant perspective on the cultural turmoil of the radical sixties and its impact on today's world, especially as reflected in the art of the time. Rookmaaker's enduring analysis looks at modern art in a broad historical, social, and philosophical context, laying bare the despair and nihilism that pervade our era. He also shows the role Christian artists can play in proclaiming truth through their work.
Modern Art and the Life of a Culture: The Religious Impulses of Modernism (Studies in Theology and the Arts #Coming In May)
by William A. Dyrness Jonathan A. AndersonChristianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the Arts For many Christians, engaging with modern art raises several questions: Is the Christian faith at odds with modern art? Does modernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art? Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian and theologian Hans Rookmaaker offered his answers to these questions when he published his groundbreaking work, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, which was characterized by both misgivings and hopefulness. While appreciating Rookmaaker's invaluable contribution to the study of theology and the arts, this volume—coauthored by an artist and a theologian—responds to his work and offers its own answers to these questions by arguing that there were actually strong religious impulses that positively shaped modern visual art. Instead of affirming a pattern of decline and growing antipathy towards faith, the authors contend that theological engagement and inquiry can be perceived across a wide range of modern art—French, British, German, Dutch, Russian and North American—and through particular works by artists such as Gauguin, Picasso, David Jones, Caspar David Friedrich, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Warhol and many others. This book, the first in IVP Academic's new Studies in Theology and the Arts series, brings together the disciplines of art history and theology and points to the signs of life in modern art in order to help Christians navigate these difficult waters.
Modern Art in 1940s Cuba: Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions
by Alejandro AnreusThe first book to explore the work of avant-garde artists in Cuba during the nation’s years as a democracy Providing the first comprehensive history of modern Cuban art during the 1940s, this book contextualizes the artistic practices, values, and contributions of the first and second generations of avant-garde artists on the island within the framework of the nation’s only democratic period. Between 1940 and the 1952 coup by Fulgencio Batista, Cuba experienced a democratic system of government as well as a vibrant cultural renaissance, particularly in the visual arts. Art historian and curator Alejandro Anreus uses interviews with key figures as well as previously untapped archival materials from this period to explore how Cuban artists collaborated to create distinct visual languages that would become part of the canon of modern art in the Americas. In this decade, Cuban art was showcased in major exhibitions both domestically and internationally, including the landmark 1944 exhibition Modern Cuban Painters at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to formal analysis of specific artworks, Anreus provides social art history to situate these artists and their work within their political and economic context. Anreus draws attention to an influential but overlooked decade in Cuba’s political and artistic history that reflects postwar hemispheric solidarity and cultural exchange between democracies, highlighting the lasting impact of this time and place on the global landscape of modern art.
Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances (Routledge Research in Art History)
by Sarah RogersModern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Positing the Cold War as a globalized conflict, fraught with different political ideologies and intercultural exchanges, this study asks how these historical circumstances shaped local debates in Beirut over artistic pedagogy, the social role of the artist, the aesthetics of form, and, ultimately, the development of a national art. Drawing on a range of archival material and taking an interdisciplinary approach, Sarah Rogers argues that the genealogies of modern art can never be understood as isolated, national histories, but rather that they participate in an ever contingent global modernism. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, Cold War studies, and Middle East studies.
Modern Art in Pakistan: History, Tradition, Place (Visual and Media Histories)
by Simone WilleModern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition. A masterful insight into South Asian art, this book will interest researchers, scholars, and students of South Asian art and art history, and Pakistan in particular. Further, it will be useful to those engaged in the fields of Islamic studies, museum studies, and modern South Asian history.
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
by Pam Meecham Julie SheldonRevised and restructured, this second edition of Modern Art traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in which art has been understood. The editors investigate the main developments in art interpretation and draw examples from a wide range of genres including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance art. This second edition has been fully updated to include many more examples of recent art practice, as well as an expanded glossary and comprehensive marginal notes providing definitions of key terms. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of visual examples, Modern Art is the essential textbook for students of art history.
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
by David CottingtonPublic interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of the Tate Modern in London and the Bilbao Guggenheim. Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction engages general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. The book focuses on interrogating the idea of "modern" art by asking such questions as: What makes a work of art qualify as modern, or fail to? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is "postmodernist" art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist? In either case, why--and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of "the modern?" Cottingham examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed (1999). He also looks at the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler, to Charles Saatchi.
Modern Art: Impressionism To Post-modernism
by David BrittOverview: A superbly illustrated overview of the major movements in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism. Modern Art is an authoritative introduction to every important development in the visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Eight critical essays by noted art historians shed light on topics from Impressionism to Dada, Art Nouveau to Pop Art. The essays are ordered chronologically, and each thoroughly examines the historical context-political, social, and technological-that shaped the movement under discussion. The text is accompanied by more than 400 color illustrations of the work of some of the most celebrated figures in art history, comprising an invigorating multiplicity of visual styles. Anyone seeking a gallery of the masterpieces of twentieth-century art, together with an informed survey of the period, will find no better single volume.
Modern Artists on Art: Second Enlarged Edition
by Robert L. HerbertThis rich, readable anthology contains 17 unabridged essays by some of the 20th century's leading artistic innovators. Chosen for their intrinsic quality and documentary value by editor Robert L. Herbert -- Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College -- the essays are presented in their entirety to allow the fullest possible expression of their authors' ideas.Ranging in tone from questing to contentious, the pieces encompass a broad spectrum of forceful artistic opinion and theory -- from Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger's 1912 presentation of Cubist theory to Henry Moore's three brief essays, three decades later, on sculpture and primitive art. Among other contributions are the reminiscences of Kandinsky; Le Corbusier and Ozenfant on Purism; Klee on modern art; Mondrian on plastic art; and Beckmann describing his painting. Essays by Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, El Lissitzky, and Fernand Léger, added to this second edition, have expanded the anthology considerably and extended its range to include Dada, Surrealism, and the "machine esthetic."Described by the Canadian Forum as "an excellent collection of carefully selected essays by some of the most significant spokesmen among Modern artists," these challenging essays not only will provide much food for thought for art historians and theorists but also will be a smorgasbord of continuing inspiration for all artists and art students -- whether or not they are devotees of "modern" art.
Modern Asian Living
by Masano Kawana Sakul Intakul Wongvipa Devahastin Na AyudhyaIn recent years Asian design - in architecture, interiors and product design - has catapulted on to the global stage. Gone are the thatched villas and vernacular furniture of yesteryear. Replacing them are sleek, modern spaces, decked out with high quality furnishings and furniture, beautiful artworks ans state-of the-art technology. This book showcases a number of brand new properties - be they shops, homes, holiday houses, restaurants, bars of offices - that represent this new wave of Asian talent.
Modern Baby Knits: 23 Knitted Baby Garments, Blankets, Toys, and More! (3 Skeins or Less)
by Tanis GrayWhen it comes to baby knits, only the cutest garments will do! It's even better when they use only 1, 2, or 3 skeins of yarn. Whether you're whipping up something special for your own little one or need an easy gift for a baby shower, you'll find lots of adorable options in 3 Skeins or Less: Modern Baby Knits. Create a chic, kimono-style sweater for a budding fashionista, or an adorable striped romper for a bouncing baby boy. A cozy colorwork beanie will keep little one's head warm through the winter months, and a handmade lovey or cabled nursery blanket makes the perfect welcome-home gift for a brand-new bundle of joy. Knitted in chic neutrals and fresh, modern brights in a range of sizes from newborn to toddler, these 23 designs are sure to please babies and moms alike.
Modern Beaded Lace: Beadweaving Techniques for Stunning Jewelry Designs
by Cynthia DanielLearn the secrets of making beautiful beaded lace! In Modern Beaded Lace, beadweaver extraordinaire Cynthia Newcomer translates her love for lace into exquisite beaded creations. Using basic beadweaving stitches, she transforms delicate seed beads and sparkling crystals into flowers, leaves, and scrolls, which become stunning necklaces, pendants, bracelets, earrings, and rings. Cynthia shares everything you need to know to create gorgeous beaded lace, including:An overview of the elements of traditional lace and how to translate them into beaded designsInstructions for the basic beadweaving stitches used in weaving beaded lace, including herringbone, peyote, right angle weave, and square stitchStep-by-step, fully illustrated instructions for creating 18 jewelry projectsTips and inspiration for designing your own beaded lace baublesIt's easier than you imagine to make showstopping beaded lace jewelry!
Modern Bee: 13 Quilts to Make with Friends
by Lindsay ConnerOrganize a modern quilting bee with these 13 projects that spark creativity, build skills, and connect you with others.Modern Bee―13 Quilts to Make with Friends by Lindsay Conner features 13 projects for a virtual one-year quilting bee. Crafted with a modern aesthetic, the patterns are inspired by traditional quilt blocks as well as bits and pieces of daily life. As you quilt along with this book from month to month, you'll master sewing techniques elevating in difficulty―from easy to advanced. Each project is comprised of block instructions and a pattern to finish a full-size quilt. You'll also find a comprehensive section on quilting basics and plenty of tips on organizing your own virtual bee.&“A modern bee: quilters connect only by Internet and snail mail, each month a &“host&” chooses a block, others work that block to return to the &“host&” for assembly.... Conner, a writer/editor/quilter/blogger, produces a well-crafted guidebook based on her online bee, the Mod Stitches. Members designed a baker&’s dozen patterns—one for each month, plus one for gift-giving or charity fundraising—that would work well for the modern bee as well as for individual quilters.&”—Publishers Weekly
Modern Blocks: 99 Quilt Blocks from Your Favorite Designers
by Susanne WoodsMeet the new kids on the block. “If you are looking for quilt block ideas, this is for you. From pinwheel to whimsical, you’ll find lots you like.” —yarnsandfabrics.co.ukToday’s most talented modern quilters put a fresh and fun spin on 99 traditional block designs. Chock full of step-by-step instructions, how-to photographs and helpful hints, this collection of inspiring projects makes it easy for any sewer—no matter what level of expertise—to quilt in a modern style with impressive results.Try something entirely new or put a twist on classic blocks—choose from pieced, appliquéd, and embroidered designsFresh and fun 12” blocks are beginner-friendly with complete cutting instructionsPerfect for using your novelty, designer, and solid fabricsGreat for block swapsFeaturing contributions by Bari J. Ackerman, John Q. Adams, Tine Andersen, Cheryl Arkison, Ellen Luckett Baker, Alethea Ballard, Briana Arlene Balsam, Mo Beldell, Natalia Bonner, Heather Bostic, Jessica Brown, Natasha Bruecher, Sonja Callaghan, Emily Cier, Leanne Cohen, Melissa Crow, Monique Dillard, Kirsten Duncan, Amy Ellis, Lara Finlayson, Krista Fleckenstein, Lynne Goldsworthy, Ann Haley, Natalie Hardin, Kate Henderson, Krista Hennebury, Wendy Hill, Solidia Hubbard, Faith Jones, Nicole Kaplan, Susan Brubaker Knapp, Wayne Kollinger, Laura West Kong, Penny Michelle Layman, Yvonne Malone, Sherri McConnell, Jamie Moilanen, Louise Papas, Angela Pingel, Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, Rachel Roxburgh, Latifah Saafir, Amanda Sasikirana, Kim Schaefer, Elizabeth Scott, Amy Sinibaldi, Pat Sloan, Tiffany Stephens, Kristi Underwood, Kimberly Walus, Monika Wintermantel, Susanne Woods, Viv Wride, Angela Yosten
Modern Bodies
by Julia L. FoulkesIn 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning.Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.