Art of the twentieth century / [translation, Antony Shugaar ; copy editor, Timothy Stroud, Emanuela Di Lallo].

Description based on: v. 2, copyrighted 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vol. 1 Aesthetic experimentation and transformation of artistic language at the dawn of the twentieth century -- Protagonists of the modern techniques and materials used in new art / Heinz Althöfer -- The eccentric vision of modernism - Barcelona - Russia -- The rigorous and geometrical line of modernist culture - Munich - Prague - Vienna -- Artists' writings and critical debates 1900-1920 / Charles Harrison -- Art nouveau and the Parisian crucible of the avant-gardes - Brussels - Paris 1900-1910 - The meteor of fauvism - The poetics of Cubism -- Fashion and anti-fashion at the turn of the twentieth century / Radu Stern -- From secessions to expressionism - German experssionism -- Artistic creativity and idea of the city 1900-1914 - The case of Munich / Marco Pogacnik -- From Scapigliatura to futurism - Milan - Florence - Rome -- Art and cinema 1900-1920 / Antonio Costa -- The fusion of the new languages - Russian art between Cubo-futurism and suprematism -- The utopia of total art / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- The experiences of abstraction - De Stijl -- The semantic revolution of the avant-gardes - metaphysics - Paris 1910-1919 -- The end of the artistic object - The Dada revolution --

Vol. 2 American art between tradition and avant-garde -- Artists' writings and critical debates, 1920-45 / Charles Harrison -- Crisis of the avant-gardes and the return to order -- Aspects of dance in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century / Patrizia Veroli -- American art between the two wars -- Photography and art between the wars / Maria Gough -- Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity) and magic realism) -- The art of propaganda (1920-45) / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- From the novecento italiano to the second generatiohn of futurism -- Films and arts from futurism to neorealism / Gian Piero Brunetta -- The international abstract front -- Decorative arts and decoration / Valerio Terraroli -- Surrealism -- Surrealism in America and the advent of abstract expressionism --

Vol. 3 : Abstract expressionism, the New York school and the Pacific school -- American sculpture between surrealism and abstract expressionism -- The tradition of modern art: informalist gesture / Heinz Althöfer -- Europe: art informel, abstraction and realism -- The Nouvelle École de Paris, realism, and art informel in France -- Other centers of art informel in Europe: Germany and Spain -- Figurative explorations in Great Britain -- Neo-concrete art -- Aspects of sculpture, the international context -- Changes in taste in the 1950s and 1960s / Gillo Dorfles -- Italian art between abstraction and realism -- The 1950s: between naturalism and art informel -- Italian sculpture between tradition and innovation -- The situation in Italy (1948-1952) / Gabriella Belli -- Spatialism, CoBrA, Gutai -- CoBrA -- Gutai -- Artists and critics: notes on the debate in the 1950s and 1960s / Silvia Bordini -- Reductionist and analytic tendencies -- Neo-Dada and Nouveau Réalisme -- The tradition of modern art: the myth of everyday life / Heinz Althöfer -- Pop art -- United States -- Europe -- Italy -- The relationship between the arts in the second half of the twentieth century: 1945-1968 / Franco Sborgi -- Op art and kinetic-programmed art -- Prolegomena to body art / Lea Vergine -- Minimalism -- --

v. 1. 1900-1919, the avant-garde movements -- v. 2. 1920-1945, the artistic culture between the wars -- v. 3. 1946-1968, the birth of contemporary art -- v. 4. 1969-1999, neo-avant-gardes, postmodern and global art -- v. 5. 2000 and beyond, contemporary tendencies.

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