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Modern art, 1905-1945 / Edina Bernard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chambers arts libraryPublication details: Edinburgh : Chambers, c2004.Description: 143 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0550101187 (pbk.)
  • 9780550101181 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Art moderne, 1905-1945. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04 BER
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709.04 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100477604
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709.04 BER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 39002100478347

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Covering movements as diverse as Fauvism, Cubism, Neoplasticism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Magic Realism, this book paints a vivid picture of the birth and early years of what we loosely call modern art. Features the work of artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Munch, Magritte, Kandinsky, Dix, and Rivera.

Originally published in French as: L\'art moderne, 1905-1945. Paris : Larousse, 1999.

Includes bibliography and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 6)
  • Revolutions Through Colour (p. 10)
  • Post-Impressionism (p. 10)
  • Pierre Bonnard: stylistic originality (p. 12)
  • Fauvism (p. 14)
  • Expressionism (p. 19)
  • Naive art (p. 25)
  • The School of Paris (p. 28)
  • Towards an evolution of form (p. 32)
  • Edvard Munch (p. 21)
  • Revolutions Through Form (p. 37)
  • Cubism (p. 37)
  • Vorticism (p. 50)
  • Futurism (p. 51)
  • The Russian avant-garde (p. 54)
  • Pablo Picasso (p. 41)
  • Kasimir Malevich (p. 57)
  • The Birth of Abstraction (p. 70)
  • Der Blaue Reiter (p. 70)
  • The Bauhaus (p. 74)
  • Neo-Plasticism (p. 77)
  • Wassily Kandinsky (p. 75)
  • The Metamorphoses of the Unconcscious (p. 84)
  • Dadaism (p. 84)
  • Merz (p. 87)
  • Surrealism (p. 88)
  • Giorgio de Chirico (p. 89)
  • Rene Magritte (p. 91)
  • Salvador Dali (p. 96)
  • A 'Laboratory of Form' (p. 98)
  • Abstraction: permanence with variations (p. 98)
  • International Modern (p. 107)
  • Henri Matisse (p. 100)
  • Fernand Leger (p. 104)
  • Orphism (p. 105)
  • The Great Depression (p. 114)
  • The return to order (p. 115)
  • Magic Realism (p. 117)
  • The New Objectivity (p. 121)
  • Latin America (p. 118)
  • Two painters of the New Objectivity movement (p. 127)
  • World War II (p. 129)
  • Chronology (p. 135)
  • Index (p. 139)
  • Bibliography (p. 142)
  • Photo Credits (p. 143)

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