Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture

1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-64284-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

This text summarises and contextualises the ideas that formed visual arts practices this century. Art, design and architecture are located in their social and political contexts, and the ideas of modernism are traced from the development of industrialised Europe at the turn of the century to the post-industrial, post-colonial present. The complex relationship between modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts is examined and the book concludes with a review of the global impact of the new technologies on art and design production.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crouch, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- The Cultural Background to the Machine Age.- The Arts and Crafts, Revolution and Rusticity.- The Machine Ethic, Functionalism and the Collective.- Individualism, the Expressive Voice and the Unconscious.- The Modernist Mass Media.- Realism and Objectivity.- High Modernism? or Modernism in Crisis?.- After Modernism? or Developing Modernism?.- Coda.

Über Autor(innen)

CHRISTOPHER CROUCH is an artist and writer. He co-ordinates Visual Art Theory at the Western Australian School of Visual Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.