Phaidon press october 1996 (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century -- Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism -- and concludes with the 'post-modernist' experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the 'tradition of the new' became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had begun as a cluster of loosely related artistic movements scattered across Europe emerged as the dominant style of the twentieth century. BEAUTIFUL COPY!!! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Used - Very Good. American artist Paul McCarthy creates sculptures figuring animal/vegetable/human hybrids, Disneyesque installations and slapstick performances in a weird evocation of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetics and simulated bodily fluids. These have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy's work echoes that of European artists such as Joseph Beuys or the Viennese Aktionistes, but gives 'action art' a post-modern twist. This is the first comprehensive survey of over twenty years of work by a profoundly influential artist. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. Wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century -- Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism -- and concludes with the 'post-modernist' experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the 'tradition of the new' became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had begun as a cluster of loosely related artistic movements scattered across Europe emerged as the dominant style of the twentieth century. Wrapped in Brodart dust jacket protector.…