The Modern Ideal: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism

by Paul Greenhalgh

Book Overview

Over the last three centuries the world has been modernized. From the first stirrings of industrialism to the definitive arrival of globalization, artists, craftspeople and designers have engaged with modernization in order to make sense of the transformations it continually imposes. They have been, by turns, brutally critical and profoundly idealistic about the ongoing state of things. The Modern Ideal explores the idea of modernity, returning it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851774696
• ISBN13: 9781851774692
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.1" x 10.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary