TY - BOOK AU - Walter,Ingo F. AU - Ruhrberg,Karl AU - Schneckenburger,Manfred AU - Fricke,Christiane AU - Honnef,Klaus TI - Art of the 20th century SN - 978-3-8365-4114-5 PY - 2012/// CY - Köln PB - Taschen KW - Art, Modern KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Art N1 - 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; Part I (2012; 402 p.: col. ill., ports.); By Karl Ruhrberg; Part II (2012; p. 403-840: col. ill., ports.); By Manfred Schneckenburger; New media by Christiane Fricke; Photogr. by Klaus Honnef ER -