Encyclopedia Of Nineteenth-Century Photography
pdf | 19.6 MB | English | Author :SusanKemmere| 978-3822859070 | 2000 | TASCHEN; 1st Edition edition

Book Description :

Art of the 20th Century Nart loveshould be without this book, and now that this new version is available you have nmore excuses!
An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves tbe owned by everyone, which is why we decided tshrinthe originahuge two-volume hardcoveset down ta manageable size and price-fothose of you with smalcoffee tables osmallebudgets. Now you'lfind in one flexi-covevolume the world's best overview of 20th century art.
Whcould possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The ter"art" has been defined and redefined smany times ovethe last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technologicameanings.
Ranging across the fulspectruof disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered thighlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedimasterwordoes just what it says on the cover. Whetheyou want SurrealisoLand Art, Fluxus oBauhaus, this is yoube-all, end-alguide tart of the past 100 years.
The authors:
KarRuhrberg, exhibition curatoand museudirector, proves that writing about art can be as compelling as the art itself.
Manfred Schneckenburger, artistidirectoof twdocumentas, describes the changes in the PlastiArts and shthe identity crisis of the century tbe the driving principle in the art-worof outime.
Christiane Fricke explores the diverse arenas of the New Media, froHappenings tFluxus, and Live Art tVideo.
Klaus Honnef, co-curatoof documenta 5 and 6 and renowned directoof photography exhibitions, examines the history of photography.
The editor:
IngF. Walther, born in Berlin in 1940, edited this volume and wrote the biographies in the glossary. He studied literature and art history at Frankfurt aMain and Munich and has written and edited numerous studies of 19th and 20th century art, among the"PablPicasso" (with C.-P. Warncke, 2 vols., TASCHEN).

Category : | Art History