Taylor's Library

Normal view MARC view ISBD view

A history of 20th-century art / Bernard Blistene

By: Blistene, Bernard.
Publisher: Paris : Flammarion, c2001Description: 201 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 2080105647.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.04
Contents:
Fauvism: from objects to signs. - Cubism: from image to language. - Cubism: from static to dynamic. - Sculpture 1880-1914: from monument to readymade. - Architecture 1890-1914: from ornamentation to simplicity. - Expressionism: between figure and abstraction. - Dada: between war and peace. - Surrealism: from The Manifesto to exile. - Classicisms and Realisms: between order and model. - Abstraction and Constructivism: geometry and utopia. - Sculptures, Assemblages, Constructions: spatial languages. - Architecture 1914-1939: rationalism and modernism. - The United States: from Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism. - Europe 1939-1970: painting: from image to tool. - The Real in Question: Pop art, Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus and the Happening. - Sculpture 1939-1970: between form and gesture. - Architecture 1944-2000: after modernism. - Art Today: the situation and its risks. - Design: things-a user's guide. - Photographies: the memory of the gaze. - Cinema, Video: moving image: projections and installations.
Summary: "Here is a fresh, exhilarating approach to the history of twentieth-century art. Rejecting the year-by-year sequential approach of conventional accounts, author Bernard Blistene tackles the subject thematically, using key works as a springboard to understanding the ideas and techniques of the major artists of the century. The book encompasses the visual arts in the broadest sense of the term. In addition to painting, sculpture and the new art forms of the postwar era, it covers architecture, photography, industrial design and video. Each chapter treats a different theme-from Fauvism to film, Dada to design-providing: a general overview of the movement or period in question, numerous illustrations of particular works, each accompanied by brief explanatory texts, chronologies detailing important events within and around the world of art, bibliographies and suggested museum visits for each movement." - Back cover.
Item type Current location Shelf location Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Main Collection Taylor's Library-TU

Floor 4, Shelf 29 , Side 2, TierNo 5, BayNo 3

 709.04 BLI (Browse shelf) 1 Available SABDx,27000,02,GR 5000029856

Originally published as "Une Histoire de l'art du xx siecle"

Fauvism: from objects to signs. - Cubism: from image to language. - Cubism: from static to dynamic. - Sculpture 1880-1914: from monument to readymade. - Architecture 1890-1914: from ornamentation to simplicity. - Expressionism: between figure and abstraction. - Dada: between war and peace. - Surrealism: from The Manifesto to exile. - Classicisms and Realisms: between order and model. - Abstraction and Constructivism: geometry and utopia. - Sculptures, Assemblages, Constructions: spatial languages. - Architecture 1914-1939: rationalism and modernism. - The United States: from Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism. - Europe 1939-1970: painting: from image to tool. - The Real in Question: Pop art, Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus and the Happening. - Sculpture 1939-1970: between form and gesture. - Architecture 1944-2000: after modernism. - Art Today: the situation and its risks. - Design: things-a user's guide. - Photographies: the memory of the gaze. - Cinema, Video: moving image: projections and installations.

"Here is a fresh, exhilarating approach to the history of twentieth-century art. Rejecting the year-by-year sequential approach of conventional accounts, author Bernard Blistene tackles the subject thematically, using key works as a springboard to understanding the ideas and techniques of the major artists of the century. The book encompasses the visual arts in the broadest sense of the term. In addition to painting, sculpture and the new art forms of the postwar era, it covers architecture, photography, industrial design and video. Each chapter treats a different theme-from Fauvism to film, Dada to design-providing: a general overview of the movement or period in question, numerous illustrations of particular works, each accompanied by brief explanatory texts, chronologies detailing important events within and around the world of art, bibliographies and suggested museum visits for each movement." - Back cover.