Art of the 20th century /
Art of the 20th century Painting. Sculpture. New Media. Photography
Ed. by Ingo F. Walter; authors: Karl Ruhrberg, Manfred Schneckenburger, New media: Christiane Fricke, phot.: K Honnef.
- Köln : Taschen, 2012.
- 2 part : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
With hard- and supercover 2 part in one book Cont. of part I: Prologue to modernism.- The world as symbol.- The break with history.- Expression and form.- Class9cism and imagination.- The end of illusion.- Revolt and poetry.- Abstraction and reality.- The face of the century.- Between revolt and acceptance.- The Paris-New York shift.- Painting as a mind-game.- Beyond utopia.- At this writing. Cont. of part II: Between tradition and modernity.- Abstraction and cubism's sound shift.- Constructing the world.- From readymade to surrealist object.- New materials: Iron and steel.- Biomorphic sculptures-a vitalistic counterposition.- Post-War positions: the existential and the abstract.- Kinetic expansion.- The direct language of reality.- American and European minimalists.- Post-minimal: sensual intensity and the expansion of art.- The delta of the contemporary.
Index of name: p. 834-840
By Karl Ruhrberg By Manfred Schneckenburger; New media by Christiane Fricke; Photogr. by Klaus Honnef Part I (2012; 402 p.: col. ill., ports.) Part II (2012; p. 403-840: col. ill., ports.)