Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism

This title sets out to provide the a concise interpretation of the period 1945 to 2000. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds they inhabited.

A collection of essays around a central thesis with implications for the history of the avant-gardes. The author observes that Duchamp caused a shift in aesthetic judgement, replacing this is beautiful with this is art and offers a re-reading of Kant's Critique of Judgement revealing links.

After the dominant models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, in this text Hal Foster argues that we are now witness to a return to the real - to art and theory that seek to be grounded in bodies and sites, identities and communities.

Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the artist, this engaging book, newly available in paperback, explores in vivid detail the life and career of Jackson Pollock. It reproduces more than 100 paintings in full colour, including six foldouts, together with over 170 illustrations in black and white.

Provoking riots at its opening in 1896, Ubu is acclaimed as the touchstone for the Dada and Surrealist movements, the Theatre of the Absurd, and much of the rest of experimental theatre in the 20th century.

Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, Rosalind Krauss explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde.

40 Years of Painting. Published to coincide with the first major exhibition of Richter's paintings in the USA.

Discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war. The book relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world and contrasts it with the realistic art of France.

Featuring the work of American and European artists, this book traces the history of conceptual art from its origins in the Dada movement through to its current practitioners. It offers an accessible explanation of the phenomenon rooted in a social context. Aimed at A level and undergraduate students, as well as the general reader.