1946-1968
Subtitle: the birth of contemporary art
By: edited by Valerio Terraroli.
Contributors: Terraroli, Valerio.
Series: Art of the 20th century : protagonists, movements and themes of art from 1900 to the present day -- 3; Art of the twentieth century (Skira (Firm))
Publisher: Skira; Thames & Hudson [distributor]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milan; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9788861301948
Subjects: Art, Modern -- 20th century.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Description: Analyses the deep transformations in art in the United States and Europe from the end of World War II, including: Action painting with Pollock, de Kooning, Kline and Motherwell; the monumental compositions of Rothko, Newman and Twombly; the Art Informel of Fautrier and Hartung; and the experience of Burri and Fontana.
Table of contents: title: Abstract expressionism, the New York school and the Pacific school; title: American sculpture between surrealism and abstract expressionism; title: The tradition of modern art: informalist gesture / Heinz Althöfer; title: Europe: art informel, abstraction and realism; title: The Nouvelle École de Paris, realism, and art informel in France; title: Other centers of art informel in Europe: Germany and Spain; title: Figurative explorations in Great Britain; title: Neo-concrete art; title: Aspects of sculpture, the international context; title: Changes in taste in the 1950s and 1960s / Gillo Dorfles; title: Italian art between abstraction and realism; title: The 1950s: between naturalism and art informel; title: Italian sculpture between tradition and innovation; title: The situation in Italy (1948-1952) / Gabriella Belli; title: Spatialism, CoBrA, Gutai; title: CoBrA; title: Gutai; title: Artists and critics: notes on the debate in the 1950s and 1960s / Silvia Bordini; title: Reductionist and analytic tendencies; title: Neo-Dada and Nouveau Réalisme; title: The tradition of modern art: the myth of everyday life / Heinz Althöfer; title: Pop art; title: United States; title: Europe; title: Italy; title: The relationship between the arts in the second half of the twentieth century: 1945-1968 / Franco Sborgi; title: Op art and kinetic-programmed art; title: Prolegomena to body art / Lea Vergine; title: Minimalism.