الفن الأوربي الحديث

by Alan Bowness, فكري خليل (ترجمة), جبرا إبراهيم جبرا (مراجعة)

هذا الكتاب بتحليلاته المرهفة ومتابعاته التاريخية المحيطة ومقترباته المصطلحية الدقيقة ينتهي بكشوفه المعرفية مع سلاسته وإمتاعه الى وضع العدة بين يدي كل من يريد ان يفهم الدور الكبير الذي لعبته الفنون البصرية في تغيير الرؤية وتعميقها في حضارة هذا العصر في اوروبا وبالتالي في كل مكان

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, History, Reference, Art History

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Sir Alan Bowness CBE (1928 -2021) was a British art historian, art critic, and museum director. He was the director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988.

Reviews

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Guess how many times I bring this book up.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very clear survey of the art movements that have had serious consequences for all of us with open eyes & our own ideas. Alan Bowness writes like a man with some awareness of the inability of words to capture a painting, a sculpture or a piece of architectural fancy; a picture paints a thousand words...& even this good read falls short of getting to the vortex of modern art...that maelstrom of new ideas that convulsed Europe from the late 19thc. onwards... & landed us with so much dross & detritus...that still draws the blind like shit attracts flies! There! Another critic of the crazy world of art...small 'a'...for small minds...but big wallets!

[Ivy-Mabel Fling · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fascinating book but it is essentially an introduction - to gain any real understanding of the artists, the reader would need to study extra material. Mr Bowness gives enough information for us to decide which artists we would like to study in greater detail. The sections on architecture and sculpture were particularly interesting to me as they gave me a lot of new leads to follow up.

[Elder · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to use Google for most of the time to get the ideas of each art movement, for the book does not provide a lot of information for the reader to understand clearly what defined and differentiated one art movement from the other.

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was extremely useful for my studies to gain an over all context and time line of artistic events from the 1890s to 1940s. Do wish there was more colour photos as well as female artists in it but otherwise
well written and interesting :)

[Shirley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprehensive overview, useful