Modern Art A Critical Introduction

Radically restructured from the first edition to put the focus on the key themes and fully updated to include many more examples of recent art practice, this new edition of the classic textbook foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in which art has been understood. Containing an expanded glossary, comprehensive marginal notes and extensively illustrated with a wide range of visual examples, "Modern Art: A Critical Introduction" is the essential textbook for students of art history.

Revised and restructured, this secondedition of Modern Art traces the historical and contemporary contexts for understanding modern art movements, and the theories that influenced and attempted to explain them. Its radical approach foregoes the chronological approach to art movements in favour of looking at the ways in which art has been understood. The editors investigate the main developments in art interpretation and draw examples from a wide range of genres including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance art. Thissecond edition has been fully updated to include many more examples of recent art practice, as well as an expanded glossary and comprehensive marginal notes providing definitions of key terms. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of visual examples, Modern Art is the essential textbook for students of art history.

1. What, When and Where was Modernism? 2. Retreats from the Urban 3. Monuments, Modernism and the Public Space 4. The Nude in Modernity and Postmodernity 5. From the Machine Aesthetic to Technoculture 6. Modernism and Realism in US Art 7. The Artist and the Museum: Muse or Nemesis? 8. Identity Politics in Photography and Performance Art

Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon