ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY DOROTHEA IEMERT Book Number: 70247 Product format: Hardback The author has published extensively on Expressionism Futurism and contemporary art and in her brilliant text presents the different artistic movements that accompanied the political, cultural, ideological and social upheavals of the 20th century. The beginning of the 20th century was a period marked by intense aesthetic and ideological research. Caught up in the chaos of historical world conflicts, artists went beyond the simple role of witnesses to become true players in the unstable atmosphere. Well aware of their influence, painters, sculptors and architects, each with their own media, attempted to inform the public about contemporary issues or solve problems caused by cultures advancing at a rapid assembly-line speed. Picasso's masterpiece Guernica remains to this day the ultimate symbol of pacifistic revolts. The first volume in this monumental two-volume slipcased publication covers Matisse and the wild beasts in Paris, the fauves and the autonomy of colour, futurism, cubism, materiality and collage, the Russian avant-garde, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, Dada and its surroundings, explosive visual language, the surreal and magical and new objectivity, sculpture, architecture in the first half of the 20th century in the USA, Europe, Moscow, San Francisco and Nuremberg and new beginnings with the realists and Abstract expressionism. Henri Rousseau's self portrait from 1890 is the first full page colour reproduction of hundreds in this huge volume of 33cm x 29½cm, 256pp. The second volume covers the second half of the 20th century, a world where major countries asserted their power and individualism now ruled. Beginning in the 1960s with the nouveaux réalistes, concrete art, Op-Art and Kinetics, Pop Art, Nouvelle figuration and new realism and photo realism, through to minimal art, conceptual art, natural processes and land art, the new expressivity of the 60s to the 80s, new media and video, photography, sculpture and readymades, painting and installations towards the end of the millennium. Then we look at architecture in the second half of the 20th century with cultural buildings from the late 50s to the mid 1970s, further development of the skyscraper with four examples, Parisian cultural buildings, post-modernism and deconstruction, and Berlin after reunification. Then we take a brief look ahead, the gigantic dimensions of architecture in the Emirates and the future - subtle architecture. Another 256 huge pages with colour examples throughout the erudite text. Brand new slipcased publication. Bibliophile price: £45.00

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