Modern Art

by Sam Hunter, John Jacobus, Daniel Wheeler

The third edition of Modern Art, now revised and expanded, narrates one of the great stories of our time - how European and American vanguard culture created modernist art by heeding the call "to make it new." Modern Art captures the sense of intellectual and aesthetic ferment through the close integration of its authoritative text and nearly nine hundred well-chosen illustrations. Right up through the present day, coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of visual arts, from painting, sculpture, and photography to conceptual forms, installation and video art, and architecture.

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

472 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Sam Hunter (January 5, 1923 – July 27, 2014) was an American historian of modern art. He was an author, an Emeritus professor of art history at Princeton University, director of the Jewish Museum, founding director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, acting director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and a visiting professor at the Clark Art Institute at Williams College, Harvard University and various other institutions of higher learning.

He penned monographs, exhibition catalogues, articles, wrote the original book on the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, contributed to textbooks and various treatments of modern art. In addition to curating many museum and gallery exhibitions, Hunter has written on Francis Bacon, Tom Wesselman, George Segal, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Jackson Pollock, and many other contemporary and modern masters.

Reviews

[Juhee Park · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, It can be referred to references or bibliography rather than a best seller one. Wordy yea.

[Sananab · Rating 2 out of 5]

Blarg. Sometimes this book has a lot of interesting things to say, which kept me reading. A lot of the time they're just blandly listing off as many artists as possible. This is a very frustrating book, because it could have been really good if the authors had just focused in a bit more.

[Cisco Jae · Rating 2 out of 5]

Completely Euro-centric upper east side view of the modern and contemporary scene.

[Niche · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my textbook for Modern Art in college. I still use it as a reference book.

[Znae]

Wordy, so so wordy.