Modern art : a very short introduction / David Cottington.

By:

Cottington, David

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 120Publication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.Description: 152 p. : ill. ; 18 cmISBN:

0192803646 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.04 COT

Contents:

Introduction: modern art: monument or mockery? -- Tracking the avant-garde -- Modern media, modern messages -- From Picasso to pop idols: the eminence of the artist -- Alchemical practices: modern art and consumerism -- Past the post: whatever next?

Holdings
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Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.04 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	39002000160599
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist - in either case, why, and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of 'the modern'? Cottington examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed, (1999); and the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-146) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
Introduction: Modern Art: Monument or Mockery?
1 The formation of the Avant-Garde
2 New media, new messages
3 Somebody had to be Picasso: the artist as hero
4 High and Low: culture and consumerism
5 Past the post: whatever next?

Author notes provided by Syndetics

David Cottington is Professor of History of Art at Falmouth College of Art. His previous publications include: Cubism ('Movements in Modern Art' series), (Tate Publishing, 1998), and Cubism in the Shadow of War, (Yale University Press, 1998).