Modernism /
Walz, Robin,1957-
Harlow, England : Pearson Longman,
2008.
"The modernist movements of the early twentieth century launched a cultural revolution without which the mufti-media-driven world in which we live today would not he possible. Today, modernism is enshrined in art galleries and university courses. Its techniques of abstraction and montage, and its creative impulse to innovate and shock, are the stock-in-trade of commercial advertising, feature films, television and computer-generated graphics." "In this concise cultural history, Robin Walz recaptures what was revolutionary about modernism. He shows how an aesthetic concept, arising from a diversity of cultural movements, from Cubism and Bauhaus to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and operating In different ways across the fields of art, literature, music, design and architecture, came to turn intellectual and cultural life and assumptions upside clown, first in Europe and then around the world." "From the nineteenth century origins of modernism to its postmodern legacies, this book will give the reader access to the big picture of modernism as a dynamic historical process and an unfinished project which still speaks to our times."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-179) and index.
What is modernism? -- Art and modernity in the nineteenth century -- The perceptual revolution -- The early avant-garde -- The radical avant-garde -- Primitivism and modernism -- The new sobriety -- Modernism in America -- Postmodernism.
"The modernist movements of the early twentieth century launched a cultural revolution without which the mufti-media-driven world in which we live today would not he possible. Today, modernism is enshrined in art galleries and university courses. Its techniques of abstraction and montage, and its creative impulse to innovate and shock, are the stock-in-trade of commercial advertising, feature films, television and computer-generated graphics." "In this concise cultural history, Robin Walz recaptures what was revolutionary about modernism. He shows how an aesthetic concept, arising from a diversity of cultural movements, from Cubism and Bauhaus to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and operating In different ways across the fields of art, literature, music, design and architecture, came to turn intellectual and cultural life and assumptions upside clown, first in Europe and then around the world." "From the nineteenth century origins of modernism to its postmodern legacies, this book will give the reader access to the big picture of modernism as a dynamic historical process and an unfinished project which still speaks to our times."--Jacket.
Modernism (Art)
Arts, Modern