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Modern art : a very short introduction / David Cottington.

By: Cottington, David [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Very short introductions: 120Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0192803646 (paperback); 9780192803641.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 20th century | Art, Modern -- 19th century | Art and Design | Theory of art | History of artDDC classification: 709.04 COT | 709.04 COT
Contents:
Introduction: modern art: monument or mockery? -- Tracking the avant-garde -- Modern media, modern messages -- From Picasso to pop idols: the eminence of the artist -- Alchemical practices: modern art and consumerism -- Past the post: whatever next?
Summary: As public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and its history.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Public 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.About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: modern art: monument or mockery? -- Tracking the avant-garde -- Modern media, modern messages -- From Picasso to pop idols: the eminence of the artist -- Alchemical practices: modern art and consumerism -- Past the post: whatever next?

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and its history.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Introduction: Modern Art: Monument or Mockery?
  • 1 The formation of the Avant-Garde
  • 2 New media, new messages
  • 3 Somebody had to be Picasso: the artist as hero
  • 4 High and Low: culture and consumerism
  • 5 Past the post: whatever next?

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Cottington is Professor of History of Art at Falmouth College of Art and the author of Cubism.