- Hardcover: 840 pages
- Publisher: Taschen GmbH; illustrated edition edition (26 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3822885762
- ISBN-13: 978-3822885765
- Product Dimensions: 36.4 x 25.2 x 7.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,294,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves our attention before we even open one of its stunningly illustrated and argued twin volumes. For what Ingo Walther and his international team have done is to make sense of this most explosive of artistic centuries. Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisite disciplines for modern artists, constantly questioning both the technical and thematic definitions of their work? The infinite laboratory of experiment that the visual arts have become over the last decades highlights not only the inherent potential for human creativity and representation, but also shows the way individuals and groups have responded to the huge social, political and technological changes of this most turbulent of times. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, your art book purchases can stop once you buy this. Warning: it will not fit on your coffee table!
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Ingo F. Walther was born in Berlin and studied medieval studies, literature, and art history in Frankfurt am Main and Munich. He has published numerous books on the art of the Middle Ages and of the 19th and 20th centuries, including TASCHEN's Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and Codices illustres.
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This book illustrates beautifully the progress of art during the last one hundred years. With hundreds of artists and thousands of great pictures. No keen artist could live without it, probably the best book I've ever purchased, and what a bargain! A thoroughly comprehensive look at works done during the modern era.
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If you only buy one artbook,make this the one.Not only pictorial reproductions,comprehensive in content,extensive in biography but easy to ready and follow,comprehensible essays of each era.Excellent value for money.
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Quick delivery. You get two small books which are easy to look at and carry round but don't feel as important as one big volume.
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