Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Joachimides, Christos M.
2. Rosenthal, Norman.
3. Anfam, David.
4. Adams, Brooks.
5. Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
6. Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
7. Saatchi Gallery.

Description

1. 490 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Subject

1. Painting, American
2. Sculpture, American
3. Painting, Modern
4. Painting, American > 20th century
5. Painting, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
6. Sculpture > États-Unis > 20e siècle
7. Sculpture, American > History > 20th century
8. Plastische kunst
9. Painting, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
10. Exhibition catalogs
11. Visual arts
12. Peinture > États-Unis > 20e siècle
13. 1900 - 1999
14. United States
15. Sculpture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
16. History
17. Schilderkunst

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. History.

Contents

1. Wrenching America's impulse into art : notes on art in the USA / Christos M. Joachimides -- American art : a view from Europe / Norman Rosenthal -- Philosophizing American art / Arthur C. Danto -- Culture, politics and society in mid-century America / Douglas Tallack -- The Armory Show and early modernism in America / Abraham A. Davidson -- Precisionist view and American scene : the 1920s / Wieland Schmied -- The 1930s : notes on the transition from social to individual scale in the art of the Depression era / Francis V. O'Connor -- Modernist history and surrealist imagination : American art in the 1940s / Stephen Polcari -- Abstract expressionism : the noise of traffic on the way to Walden Pond / Irving Sandler -- Beginning at the end : the extremes of abstract expressionism / David Anfam -- Black Mountain College : European modernism, the experimental spirit and the American avant-garde / Mary Emma Harris -- New York intermedia : happenings and fluxus in the 1960s / Barbara Moore -- The 1960s : notes on Camelot / Brooks Adams.
2. ̀To speak another language' : the critique of painting and the beginnings of minimal and conceptual art / Neal Benezra -- Antiform : 1965-1970 / Richard Armstrong -- Land art / John Beardsley -- Shattered orthodoxy : the energy of transformation / Wolfgang Max Faust -- Critics, primary and secondary / Donald Kuspit -- The museum and the collector / Gail Stavitsky -- American galleries in the twentieth century : from Stieglitz to Castelli / Mary Lublin -- ̀The body electric' : the erotic dimension in American art / Carter Ratcliff -- The media in America : but is it art? / Karal Ann Marling -- Americans abroad / Peter Selz -- It's the sheer size : European responses to American art / Thomas Kellein -- The western frontiers of internationalism : Europe-America / Achille Bonito Oliva.

Call number

1. JQZ 13-194

Note

1. "First published on the occasion of the exhibition Àmerican Art in the 20th Century : Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993', held at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 8 May-25 July 1993, and the Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, London, 16 September-12 December, 1993"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-481) and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also issued online.

Title

1. American art in the 20th century : painting and sculpture, 1913-1993 / edited by Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal ; co-ordinating editor, David Anfam ; essays by Brooks Adams [and others].

Imprint

1. Munich : Prestel ; New York : Te Neues Pub. Co. [distributor], ©1993.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-481) and index.

Additional formats

1. Also issued online.

Chronological term

1. 1900 - 1999

Indexed term

1. Visual arts.
2. United States.

Added author

1. Joachimides, Christos M.
2. Rosenthal, Norman.
3. Anfam, David.
4. Adams, Brooks.
5. Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)
6. Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
7. Saatchi Gallery.

Other form:

1. Online version: American art in the 20th century. Munich : Prestel ; New York : Te Neues Pub. Co. [distributor], ©1993 (OCoLC)621684937
2. Online version: American art in the 20th century. Munich : Prestel ; New York : Te Neues Pub. Co. [distributor], ©1993 (OCoLC)624407965

ISBN

1. 3791312618
2. 9783791312613
3. 3791312405 (German ed.)
4. 9783791312408 (German ed.)

Research call number

1. JQZ 13-194