Realism - Brossura

Malpas, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521627575 ISBN 13: 9780521627573

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Riassunto

Realism in the art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity. Although not bound together stylistically or by a manifesto of intention, a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they appear, whether it be the domestic claustrophobia depicted in Sickert's 'Ennui' or the social observation of urban nightlife in Weimar Germany in the work of Christian Schad and Georg Schrimpf. James Malpas examines the so-called 'socialist realism' of Stalin's Soviet Union and the condemnation of artists and works not conforming to the acadmic-realist scruples of Adolf Hitler. With the triumph of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s realism may have been thought outmoded, but its varied and vibrant quality was to be revealed in the 'Pop Art' backlash in the United States and Britain, in the work of David Hockney, Richard Hamilaton, and Andy Warhol.

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Descrizione del libro

Realism in the art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity. Although not bound together stylistically or by a manifesto of intention, a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they appear. Malpas's work examines the major works of this genre.

Contenuti

Introduction; 1. The Nineteenth-Century Legacy: Pre-Raphaelism, Courbet and Bastien-Lepage; 2. Realism and the Avant-Garde in the Early Twentieth Century; 3. The First World War; 4. Realism eclipsed; 5. Pop Art and after; 6. Realism and the present.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521627575
• ISBN 13: 9780521627573
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96