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Modern Starts: People, Places, Things

By John Elderfield

Modern Starts: People, Places, Things

By John Elderfield

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A challenging exploration of the visual arts from 1880 through 1920, Modern Starts is an unconventional guide to the beginnings of modernism. Deliberately abandoning customary labels--such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism--and accepted chronological ordering, Modern Starts offers many pathways, each independent and self-sufficient, intended to suggest fresh modes of looking at and thinking about works both very familiar and quite unfamiliar. Loosely organized into three thematic sections, the book begins with "People," treating the great period of early modern figurative art from Rodin and Matisse to Munch. "Places" features landscapes and cityscapes by such artists as Atget, Cazanne, de Chirico, and Lager. "Things" addresses the importance of object-like works, such as Duchamp's "Readymades" and Brancusi's sculptures; and representations of things from Picasso's still lifes to Lucian Bernhard's advertising posters. Provocative juxtapositions, new contexts, and inventive interplays of
Product details
Number of Pages:
360
Release Date:
1999-09-01
Publication Date:
1999-09-01
Publisher:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0810962039
Weight:
450 g
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