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Modern Art 1870-2000
Hans W Holzwarth
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Description for Modern Art 1870-2000
Hardcover. Editor(s): Werner Holzwarth, Hans. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; ACVT; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first assault on the artistic establishment, there was no holding back. In a constant desire to challenge, innovate, and inspire, one modernist style supplanted the next: Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, abstract art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, ... Read more
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first assault on the artistic establishment, there was no holding back. In a constant desire to challenge, innovate, and inspire, one modernist style supplanted the next: Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, abstract art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen GmbH Germany
Number of pages
680
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836555395
SKU
V9783836555395
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About Hans W Holzwarth
Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor based in Berlin, with numerous publications mainly on contemporary art and photography. For TASCHEN he has edited, among other titles, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen, Neo Rauch and Ai Weiwei.
Reviews for Modern Art 1870-2000
Groundbreaking works by pioneers of modernism.