Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes

This revised and enlarged edition contains five new essays with nine new illustrations in the section Women Reshaping the Object. There is also a new preface by the artist Athena Tacha, a close friend of the author.

Arts & Photography

Johnson, Ellen H.

History & Criticism

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From the Preface:The fact that so much of modern art has devoted itself to the exploration and assertion of its own identity is reflected in, but does not explain, the increasing amount of writing and talking on the part of contemporary artists. Rather, the whole history of the changing role of art and artists in a democratic, industrial, and technological society stands behind the spate of artists' words and the public's hunger for them?even some of the general public out there beyond art's little circle. Statements by artists appeal somewhat the way drawings do: they bring us, or at least they hold the promise of bringing us, closer to the artist's thoughts and feelings and to an understanding of his or her modus operandi; they hold the keys to a mysterious realm. And sometimes they offer us the sheer pleasure of good reading. Such is the primary raison d' e of this book.Its other motivation is educational, and stems from the frustrating lack, in teaching contemporary art, of any single compilation of statements by American artists from 1940 to the present.? This anthology differs in several respects from those others that do include documents of American art since 1940.? The selection I have made is devoted exclusively to statements of artists; it is limited to the last four decades; it presents in a single volume a representative and fairly comprehensive coverage of major developments in American art beginning with Abstract Expressionism; and, whenever possible, it cities the first, or among the very earliest, documents signalizing a shift in the definition, intent, or direction of art.?

American Artists On Art: From 1940 To 1980 (Icon Editions)

Routledge

A revised and enlarged edition of a work on modern art. It contains five new essays with nine new illustrations in the section on Women Reshaping the Object.

Modern Art And The Object: A Century Of Changing Attitudes, Revised And Enlarged Edition

Johnson, Ellen

Westview Press

Topics include Cézanne, John F. Kensett, John Marin, Cubism, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Diebenkorn, Mel Bochner, and more. 240p. 109 illustrations. Notes. Figures. Index.

Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes (Icon Editions)

HarperCollins, Publishers

This revised and enlarged edition contains five new essays with nine new illustrations in the section Women Reshaping the Object. There is also a new preface by the artist Athena Tacha, a close friend of the author.

Claes Oldenburg (born January 28 1929) is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects.

Claes Oldenburg

Penguin??Books

This book is devoted to a reexamination of modern art from the point of view of the artist's approach to the object. It chronicles the complex, changing relationship between art and the object over the past hundred years; a fundamental organicism relationship as one thing grows out of another.

Modern art and the object: A century of changing attitudes

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Thames and Hudson

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Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes

American Artists On Art: From 1940 To 1980 (Icon Editions)

Modern Art And The Object: A Century Of Changing Attitudes, Revised And Enlarged Edition

Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes (Icon Editions)

Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes

Claes Oldenburg

Modern Art And The Object: A Century Of Changing Attitudes, Revised And Enlarged Edition

American Artists On Art: From 1940 To 1980 (Icon Editions)

Modern Art And The Object: A Century Of Changing Attitudes, Revised And Enlarged Edition

Modern art and the object: A century of changing attitudes