Art Since 1900: 1900 to 1944

by Hal Foster

The authors of Art Since 1900 adopt a unique, year-by-year structure in which they present more than one hundred and twenty short essays, each focusing on crucial events and the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, or the opening of a major exhibition that tell the story of the dazzling diversity of practice and interpretation that characterizes art of this period. Each turning point and breakthrough of modernism and postmodernism is explored in depth, as are the frequent anti-modernist reactions that proposed alternative visions of art and the world. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art in a way that enables them to comprehend the many “voices” of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, History, Art History, Theory, School, Modern

360 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2016

About the author

Hal Foster is a Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University specializing in 20th century art.

Note: for the comic book artist, see Harold "Hal" Foster.

Reviews

[Mary Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is probably the best textbook I've ever had. Ever We didn't read all of the chapters in my European Art 1885-1945 class, but it was so great that I went back and re-read the other chapters on my own. It's a pretty dense book, so I recommend bringing along a highlighter, and it covers a lot of material even though the window of focus is relatively narrow. There are a lot of interesting anecdotes and if any book can convince you that a plain black square painted on a canvas is art, it's this one. Definitely would recommend, and sometime in the future I'll probably pick up the other books that Foster has written just to have a look.

[Mills College Library]

709.04 A7847 2016

[Alessio]

this is the best textbook i've ever had and it will stay with me until i die; i only wish the book was lighter and more portable, but that is to quibble