After Modern Art: 1945-2017

Oxford History of Art

by David Hopkins

Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful, provocative and disturbing. This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015, when art and its traditional forms were called into question. It focuses on the relationship between American and European art, and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time.

Major artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Shiran Neshat are all discussed, as is the art world of the last fifty years. Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and Performance Art.

This revised and updated second edition includes a new chapter exploring art since 2000 and how globalization has caused shifts in the art world, an updated Bibliography, and 16 new, colour illustrations.

Genres: Art, Art History, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

Published August 28, 2018

About the author

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David Hopkins is a fantasy novelist with an interest in Shakespeare, medieval history, fairy tales, and myth. He is the author of The Dryad’s Crown, a story set in the vast world of Efre Ousel. BookLife described The Dryad's Crown as "a welcome, inventive, humane fantasy, set at the scale of a single fascinating life."

His work also includes the novel Wear Chainmail to the Apocalypse, the short story collection We Miss All the Great Parties and the burlesque memoir The Wild and Wayward Tales of Tammi True.

David has been a regular contributor to D Magazine, Smart Pop Books, and Fanboy Radio. He has written op-eds for the Dallas Morning News and Chicago Tribune, comic books and graphic novels in a variety of genres, and even a few D&D adventures.

David is married to artist and designer, April Hopkins. He has two daughters, Kennedy and Greta, and a dog named Moose.

Reviews

[Meghan Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good overview of American and European art and the underpinning ideas, movements, isms and historical events that effected art from 1945-2017. However, this overview mentions only a few works by BIPOC and does not mention the civil rights movement or other related historical events. The new edition is a lost opportunity to bring light on works by people of color.

[Sarah Sloom]

I didn't exactly finish reading this, but I did use it quite a bit for class. It's a pretty interesting text considering how academic it is. I learned a lot from reading it.

[Hailey Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good contemporary/modern art textbook for one of my history classes.