History of Modern Art, 7th edition

In this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Chapter 1: The Origins of Modern Art
• Chapter 2: The Search for Truth: Early Photography, Realism, and Impressionism
• Chapter 3: Post-Impressionism
• Chapter 4: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and the Beginnings of Expressionism
• Chapter 5: The New Century: Experiments in Color and Form
• Chapter 6: Expressionism in Germany and Austria
• Chapter 7: Cubism
• Chapter 8: Early Modern Architecture
• Chapter 9: European Art after Cubism
• Chapter 10: Picturing the Wasteland: Western Europe during World War I
• Chapter 11: Art in France after World War I
• Chapter 12: Clarity, Certainty, and Order: De Stijl and the Pursuit of Geometric Abstraction
• Chapter 13: Bauhaus and the Teaching of Modernism
• Chapter 14: Surrealism
• Chapter 15: American Art Before World War II
• Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
• Chapter 17: Postwar European Art
• Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus
• Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture
• Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction
• Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century
• Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art
• Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists
• Chapter 24: Postmodernism
• Chapter 25: Painting through History
• Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience
• Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Chapter 1: The Origins of Modern Art
  • Making Art and Artists: The Role of the Critic
  • The Modern Artist
  • What Does It Mean to Be an Artist?: From Academic Emulation toward Romantic Originality
  • Making Sense of a Turbulent World: The Legacy of Neoclassicism and Romanticism
• Chapter 2: The Search for Truth: Early Photography, Realism, and Impressionism
  • New Ways of Seeing: Photography and its Influence
  • Only the Truth: Realism
  • Seizing the Moment: Impressionism and the Avant-Garde
  • From Realism to Impressionism
  • Nineteenth-Century Art in the United States
• Chapter 3: Post-Impressionism
  • The Poetic Science of Color: Seurat and the Neo-Impressionist
  • Form and Nature: Paul Cézanne
  • The Triumph of Imagination: Symbolism
  • An Art Reborn: Rodin and Sculpture at the Fin de Siècle
  • Primitivism and the Avant-Garde: Gauguin and Van Gogh
  • A New Generation of Prophets: The Nabis
  • Montmartre: At Home with the Avant-Garde
• Chapter 4: Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and the Beginnings of Expressionism
  • “A Return to Simplicity”: The Arts and Crafts Movement and Experimental
  • Architecture
  • Experiments in Synthesis: Modernism beside the Hearth
  • With Beauty at the Reins of Industry: Aestheticism and Art Nouveau
  • Natural Forms for the Machine Age: The Art Nouveau Aesthetic
  • Painting and Graphic Art
  • Toward Expressionism: Late Nineteenth-Century Avant-Garde Painting beyond France
• Chapter 5: The New Century: Experiments in Color and Form
  • Fauvism
  • “Purity of Means” in Practice: Henri Matisse’s Early Career
  • “Wild Beasts” Tamed: Derain, Vlaminck, and Dufy
  • Religious Art for a Modern Age: Georges Rouault
  • The Belle Époque on Film: The Lumière Brothers and Lartigue
  • Modernism on a Grand Scale: Matisse’s Art after Fauvism
  • Forms of the Essential: Constantin Brancusi
• Chapter 6: Expressionism in Germany and Austria
  • From Romanticism to Expressionism: Corinth and Modersohn-Becker
  • Spanning the Divide between Romanticism and Expressionism: Die Brücke
  • The Spiritual Dimension: Der Blaue Reiter
  • Expressionist Sculpture
  • Self-Examination: Expressionism in Austria
• Chapter 7: Cubism
  • Immersed in Tradition: Picasso’s Early Career
  • Beyond Fauvism: Braque’s Early Career
  • “Two Mountain Climbers Roped Together”: Braque, Picasso, and the
  • Development of Cubism
  • Constructed Spaces: Cubist Sculpture
  • An Adaptable Idiom: Developments in Cubist Painting in Paris
  • Other Agendas: Orphism and Other Experimental Art in
• Chapter 8: Early Modern Architecture
  • “Form Follows Function”: The Chicago School and the Origins of the Skyscraper
  • Modernism in Harmony with Nature: Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Temples for the Modern City: American Classicism 1900—15
  • New Simplicity Versus Art Nouveau: Vienna Before World War I
  • Tradition and Innovation: The German Contribution to Modern Architecture
  • Toward the International Style: The Netherlands and Belgium
• Chapter 9: European Art after Cubism
  • Fantasy Through Abstraction: Chagall and the Metaphysical School
  • “Running on Shrapnel”: Futurism in Italy
  • “Our Vortex is Not Afraid”: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism
  • A World Ready for Change: The Avant-Garde in Russia
  • Utopian Visions: Russian Constructivism
• Chapter 10: Picturing the Wasteland: Western Europe during World War I
  • The World Turned Upside Down: The Birth of Dada
  • “Her Plumbing and Her Bridges”: Dada Comes to America
  • “Art is Dead”: Dada in Germany
  • Idealism and Disgust: The “New Objectivity” in Germany
• Chapter 11: Art in France after World War I
  • Eloquent Figuration: Les Maudits
  • Dedication to Color: Matisse’s Later Career
  • Celebrating the Good Life: Dufy’s Later Career
  • Eclectic Mastery: Picasso’s Career after the War
  • Sensuous Analysis: Braque’s Later Career
  • Austerity and Elegance: Léger, Le Corbusier, and Ozenfant
• Chapter 12: Clarity, Certainty, and Order: De Stijl and the Pursuit of Geometric Abstraction
  • The de Stijl Idea
  • Mondrian: Seeking the Spiritual Through the Rational
  • Van Doesburg, de Stijl, and Elementarism
  • De Stijl Realized: Sculpture and Architecture
• Chapter 13: Bauhaus and the Teaching of Modernism
  • Audacious Lightness: The Architecture of Gropius
  • The Building as Entity: The Bauhaus
  • The Vorkurs: Basis of the Bauhaus Curriculum
  • Die Werkmeistern: Craft Masters at the Bauhaus
  • From Bauhaus Dessau to Bauhaus U.S.A.
• Chapter 14: Surrealism
  • Breton and the Background to Surrealism
  • “Art is a Fruit”: Arp’s Later Career
  • Hybrid Menageries: Ernst’s Surrealist Techniques
  • “Night, Music, and Stars”: Miró and Organic—Abstract Surrealism
  • Methodical Anarchy: André Masson
  • Enigmatic Landscapes: Tanguy and Dalí
  • Surrealism beyond France and Spain: Magritte, Delvaux, Bellmer, Matta, and Lam
  • Women and Surrealism: Oppenheim, Cahun, Maar, Tanning, and Carrington
  • Never Quite “One of Ours”: Picasso and Surrealism
  • Pioneer of a New Iron Age: Julio González
  • Surrealism’s Sculptural Language: Giacometti’s Early Career
  • Surrealist Sculpture in Britain: Moore
  • Bizarre Juxtapositions: Photography and Surrealism
• Chapter 15: American Art Before World War II
  • American Artist as Cosmopolitan: Romaine Brooks
  • The Truth about America: The Eight and Social Criticism
  • A Rallying Place for Modernism: 291 Gallery and the Stieglitz Circle
  • Coming to America: The Armory Show
  • Sharpening the Focus on Color and Form: Synchromism and Precisionism
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • Painting the American Scene: Regionalists and Social Realists
  • Documents of an Era: American Photographers Between the Wars
  • Social Protest and Personal Pain: Mexican Artists
  • The Avant-Garde Advances: Toward American Abstract Art
  • Sculpture in America Between the Wars
• Chapter 16: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Sculpture
  • Mondrian in New York: The Tempo of the Metropolis
  • Entering a New Arena: Modes of Abstract Expressionism
  • The Picture as Event: Experiments in Gestural Painting
  • Complex Simplicities: Color Field Painting
  • Drawing in Steel: Constructed Sculpture
  • Textures of the Surreal: Biomorphic Sculpture and Assemblage
  • Expressive Vision: Developments in American Photography
• Chapter 17: Postwar European Art
  • Re-evaluations and Violations: Figurative Art in France
  • A Different Art: Abstraction in France
  • Postwar Juxtapositions: Figuration and Abstraction in Italy and Spain
  • “Forget It and Start Again”: The CoBrA Artists and Hundertwasser
  • The Postwar Body: British Sculpture and Painting
  • Marvels of Daily Life: European Photographers
• Chapter 18: Nouveau Réalisme and Fluxus
  • “Sensibility in Material Form”: Klein
  • Fluxus
• Chapter 19: Taking Chances with Popular Culture
  • “This is Tomorrow”: Pop Art in Britain
  • Signs of the Times: Pop Art in the United States
  • Getting Closer to Life: Happenings and Environments
  • “Just Look at the Surface”: The Imagery of Everyday Life
  • Poetics of the “New Gomorrah”: West Coast Artists
  • Personal Documentaries: The Snapshot Aesthetic in American Photography
• Chapter 20: Playing by the Rules: Sixties Abstraction
  • Drawing the Veil: Post Painterly Abstraction
  • At an Oblique Angle: Diebenkorn
  • Forming the Unit: Hard-Edge Painting
  • Seeing Things: Op Art
  • New Media Mobilized: Motion and Light
  • The Limits of Modernism: Minimalism
  • Complex Unities: Photography and Minimalism
• Chapter 21: Modernism in Architecture at Mid-Century
  • “The Quiet Unbroken Wave”: The Later Work of Wright and Le Corbusier
  • Purity and Proportion: The International Style in America
  • Internationalism Contextualized: Developments in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia
  • Breaking the Mold: Experimental Housing
  • Arenas for Innovation: Major Public Projects
• Chapter 22: Conceptual and Activist Art
  • Art as Language
  • Conceptual Art as Cultural Critique
  • The Medium Is the Message: Early Video Art
  • When Art Becomes Artist: Body Art
  • Radical Alternatives: Feminist Art
  • Erasing the Boundaries between Art and Life: Later Feminist Art
  • Invisible to Visible: Art and Racial Politics
• Chapter 23: Post-Minimalism, Earth Art, and New Imagists
  • Metaphors for Life: Process Art
  • Big Outdoors: Earthworks and Land Art
  • Public Statements: Monuments and Large-Scale Sculpture
  • Body of Evidence: Figurative Art
  • Animated Surfaces: Pattern and Decoration
  • Figure and Ambiguity: New Image Art
• Chapter 24: Postmodernism
  • Postmodernism in Architecture
  • “Complexity and Contradiction”: The Reaction Against Modernism Sets In
  • In Praise of “Messy Vitality”: Postmodernist Eclecticism
  • Ironic Grandeur: Postmodern Architecture and History
  • What Is a Building?: Constructivist and Deconstructivist Architecture
  • Structure as Metaphor: Architectural Allegories
  • Flexible Spaces: Architecture and Urbanism
  • Postmodern Practices: Breaking Art History
• Chapter 25: Painting through History
  • Primal Passions: Neo-Expressionism
  • Searing Statements: Painting as Social Conscience
  • In the Empire of Signs: Neo-Geo
  • The Sum of Many Parts: Abstraction in the 1980s
  • Taking Art to the Streets: Graffiti and Cartoon Artists
  • Painting Art History
• Chapter 26: New Perspectives on Art and Audience
  • Commodity Art
  • Postmodern Arenas: Installation Art
  • Strangely Familiar: British and American Sculpture
  • Reprise and Reinterpretation: Art History as Art
  • New Perspectives on Childhood and Identity
  • The Art of Biography
  • Meeting Points: New Approaches to Abstraction
• Chapter 27: Contemporary Art and Globalization
  • Lines That Define Us: Locating and Crossing Borders
  • Skin Deep: Identity and the Body
  • Occupying the Art World Globalization and Arts Institutions