Art of the 20th centuryDorothea Eimert.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction; A New View of the World -- Technology and the Natural Sciences Change the Mechanistic World View; Expression and Fragmentation; Matisse and the Wild Beasts in Paris: The Fauves and the Autonomy of Colour; Paula Modersohn-Becker and Tranquillity in Worpswede; Futurism: The Dynamisation of the Image; Expressionism and the Search for Contemporary Form; Cubism, Materiality, and Collage; Abstractions; The Russian Avant-Garde; De Stijl: The Uniformity of the Painting Surface; The Bauhaus; One Turn of the Screw Tighter During World War I; Dada and Its Surroundings

Explosive Visual LanguageVeristic Tendencies; Surreal and Magical: Between the World Wars; Pittura Metafisica; Surrealism; Magical Realism and the New Objectivity; Degenerate Art; Sculpture in the First Half of the 20th Century; First Steps; The Fragmentation of Shape; Material Constructions; Bauhaus and De Stijl; Readymade and Surreal Objects; Homogenous as Nature; Architecture in the First Half of the 20th Century; An Introductory Note; The U.S.A.; Europe During the First Two Decades; The'30s: Moscow, San Francisco, Nuremberg; New Beginnings on the International Scene after World War II

The RealistsNew York and Abstract Expressionism; Europe and Abstract Expressionism; Abstract Expressionist Sculpture; The Sixties: Close to Real Life; Nouveaux Réalistes; Concrete Art; Op-Art and Kinetics: The View from the Centre; Pop Art; Nouvelle Figuration and New Realism; Photorealism; A Long Intermission: What You See Is What You See; Minimal Art; Conceptual Art; Sensitisation of the Senses; Campaigns, Happenings, Fluxus; Joseph Beuys; Arte Povera: Organic Energy; Natural Processes; Spurensicherung: Material Memory; Land Art: Ethereal Energies; Upheaval and Awakening

From the '60s to the '80sThe New Expressivity; Painting as Painting -- An Everlasting Language; Media; Video and New Media; Photography: A Brief Look Back and Ahead; In the Wake of the Turn of the Millennium: Unknown Possibilities; Sculpture and Readymades; Painting and Installations toward the End of the Millennium; Architecture in the Second Half of the 20th Century; The First Two Decades after World War II; Cultural Buildings from the Late '50s to the Mid-'70s; Further Development of the Skyscraper: Four Examples; Parisian Cultural Buildings in the François Mitterrand Period

Postmodernism and DeconstructionA New Sensibility; Berlin after Reunification; Architecture in the New Millennium; A Brief Look Back and Ahead; The Gigantic Dimensions of Architecture in the Emirates; The Future: Subtle Architecture; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

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