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The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art illuminates important artists, styles, and movements of the past 70 years. Beginning with the immediate post-World War II period, it encompasses earlier 20th century masters, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan M...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts
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The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art illuminates important artists, styles, and movements of the past 70 years. Beginning with the immediate post-World War II period, it encompasses earlier 20th century masters, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Mir, Jean Dubuffet, Stuart Davis, Georgia OKeeffe, and other well-known figures, who remained creatively productive, while also inspiring younger generations. The book covers subsequent developments, including abstract expressionism, happenings, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, arte povera, feminist art, photorealism, neo-expressionism, and postmodernism, as well as the contributions of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Lucio Fontana, Andy Warhol, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Anselm Kiefer, Judy Chicago, Ai Weiwei, and Jeff Koons. -- Amazon.com. |
| Carrier Form: | xxxvii, 531 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-530). |
| ISBN: |
9781442276673 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1442276673 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | N6490 |
| CLC: | J110.95-61 |
| Call Number: | J110.95-61/M847 |