Modernism's History

by Bernard Smith and Bernard Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181922
• ISBN13: 9780300181920
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"