Cottington David. Modern Art. A very short introduction

Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley-blackwell, 2013. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1444338669. An exciting report on the contemporary art world, which presents original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators and artists, presenting different points of view on the most important debates and discussions taking place in the world. The Edition contains a...

Thames & Hudson, 2005. — 704 p. — ISBN: 0500238189 (ISBN13: 9780500238189). In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere sought to overturn the...

Oxford University Press, 2000. — 289 p. — ISBN 0-19-284234-x (Pbk), ISBN 0-19-284281-1 (Hbk). Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful; it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. This book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of the period as a whole, clarifying the artists and their works along the way. Closely informed by new...

Oxford University Press, 2005. - 158 pages. Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David, are familiar symbols of the Renaissance. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? Was...

Wiley-Blackwell, 2006. — 648 p. A Companion to Contemporary Art is a major survey covering the major works and movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, social, political, and aesthetic issues in contemporary art since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. Collects 27 original essays by expert scholars describing the current state of...

Blackwell Anthologies in Art History, volume 1 Wiley -Вlасkwеll, 2006. - 433 pages. Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, canonical criticism. Collects the most important...