A History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by H. H. Arnason (Thames and Hudson 1977) charts the development of 20th-century art and architecture.
Established as the most comprehensive presentation of modern art when first published in 1969, A History of Modern Art has been completely revised and expanded to include the exciting developments of the 1970s. In this work, through word and image, the story of art-history-in-the-making is told. It is a magnificent story, reaffirming the past century as one of the great ages of art and architecture.
A History of Modern Art reaches back to the first stirrings of a new approach to art. It begins with a thorough account of the influential nineteenth-century academies, romanticism and realism; then, with the impressionists and post-impressionists it provides a detailed analysis of what was accomplished and how this breakthrough prepared the way for subsequent innovations (…) The developments from 1950 up to the moment of publication constitute the final sections of the book: abstract expressionism, pop and op art, minimal art, colour-field painting, and motion-and-light art. Provocative trends of the late 1960s – sculpture in place, earth works, perform-ance, environmental art – have been fully realized in the 1970s, and new trends – photo realism, conceptualism – have taken root. In architecture, projected or recently built enterprises include industrial buildings and skyscrapers, airports, houses, museums, college campuses, cultural centres, public buildings, and experiments involving utopian concepts of urban planning with new solutions to age-old problems of space, ecology and energy.
– H. H. Arnason, A History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (Thames and Hudson, 1977), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs and art images.
Our copy is in good condition. The pages are clean; no markings. There is some slight toning on the edges of the pages. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows some edge wear and some small signs of use.
