Modernism's history : a study in twentieth-century art and ideas
"The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that a return to the concept of period style is inevitable and that modernism--the dominant "style" of art that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and continued through the 1960s--deserves recognition as a period style. Smith renames this period Formalesque since it is no longer modern and since it emphasizes the formal values of art more than any previous period does."--Publisher's information
vi, 376 pages ; 24 cm
9780300073928, 0300073925
38535888
| Introduction | 1 | (14) | |||
| PART ONE: THE RISE OF THE FORMALESQUE | 15 | (94) | |||
| 15 | (14) | |||
| 29 | (23) | |||
| 52 | (15) | |||
| 67 | (27) | |||
| 94 | (15) | |||
| PART TWO: THE FORMALESQUE AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODERNISM | 109 | (237) | |||
| 109 | (38) | |||
| 147 | (50) | |||
| 197 | (36) | |||
| 233 | (22) | |||
| 255 | (17) | |||
| 272 | (33) | |||
| 305 | (38) | |||
| 343 | (3) | |||
| References cited | 346 | (19) | |||
| Index | 365 |