Year of manufacture: 2000
Author: David Hopkins
Genre: History of art / History of art
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford History of Art
English language
ISBN: 0-19-284234-x; 0-19-284281-1
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 282

Modern art can be both repulsive and "beautiful," it can also be innovative and politically directed, frightening, discouraging, or completely incomprehensible. This book gives a brief interpretation of the art of the post-war period as a whole, along with the art of certain famous artists. Using new critical methods and approaches, the author concentrates on the relationship between American and European art from the end of World War II to the beginning of the new millennium.
Jackson Pollock, Jasper Jones, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, Louise Borges, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman are just some of the many names of artists whose work is carefully considered in the light of the political and cultural context. Using the chronological approach, the author highlights such key directions as abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, postmodernism, performance, in order to disclose theoretical grounds and debates on the main problems that ensured the art movement of this period.

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