The age of modernism : art in the 20th century / edited by Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal ; essays by Brooks Adams [and others] ; co-ordinating editors, Gerti Fietzek and Henry Meyric Hughes. - 672 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 7 May - 27 July 1997. Portions of text translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The age of modernism / Christos M. Joachimides -- A century of self-analysis : philosophy in search of an identity / Arthur C. Danto -- A self-critical modernity or Europe's century nears its end / Wolf Lepenies -- Presentation off duty and depoliticised revolution : philosophical remarks on art and politics / Odo Marquard -- Questions to a broken mirror / Norman Rosenthal -- Masks or identities? / Shearer West -- Purity and belief : the lure of abstraction / Anna Moszynska -- Like smoke : a Duchampion legacy / Brooks Adams -- Magic realities, dream, myth, fiction / Wieland Schmied -- The premisses of modern art / Stephen Bann -- The two utopias / Beat Wyss -- The will to totality / Boris Groys -- Art outside the museum / Robert C. Morgan -- Art and media / Dieter Daniels -- For Waldo : an essay on art criticism / Peter Schjeldahl.

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Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions
Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions

N6494.M64 / A37 1997

709.04