After Modern Art: 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art)

After Modern Art: 1945-2000 (Oxford History of Art)

by David Hopkins (Author)

Synopsis

Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by critical approaches, this book sets out to provide a concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political and cultural worlds they inhabited. The theoretical and issue-based debates that have driven the art of this period art along are followed through the key movements of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism. This book is intended for an introduction to art in the last half of the 20th Century for students and the general reader interested in modern and contemporary art.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 14 Sep 2000

ISBN 10: 0192842811
ISBN 13: 9780192842817

Media Reviews
This excellent work focuses on important movements and issues in the visual arts from WWII to the present....[Hopkins]...succeeds in extending discussion out from American art to provide an international perspective as well as an exceptionally stimulating and cohesive commentary on the 'difficult'
art of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Reproductions are good; well-chosen, helpful notes; brief chapter bibliographies; useful time line; list of Web sites. Upper-division undergraduates and up. --Choice
Hopkins is an able guide...creating a self-determined path through some remakrably dense territory but ready to point out the meaningful byways as well. --John Loughery, The Washington Post
After Modern Art, in only 245 pages, covers that amazing creative period following the Second World War. Well documented with a good array of illustrations, this book is fun reading. --Gadfly
Finally an affordable, clearly written book on the Contemporary Era. Filled with resources and analysis that students can use. --Steven Michael Vroom, Cornish College of the Arts
An invaluable guide to art of the second half of the twentieth century --Sandy Nairne, Tate Gallery


This excellent work focuses on important movements and issues in the visual arts from WWII to the present....[Hopkins]...succeeds in extending discussion out from American art to provide an international perspective as well as an exceptionally stimulating and cohesive commentary on the 'difficult'
art of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Reproductions are good; well-chosen, helpful notes; brief chapter bibliographies; useful time line; list of Web sites. Upper-division undergraduates and up. --Choice
Hopkins is an able guide...creating a self-determined path through some remakrably dense territory but ready to point out the meaningful byways as well. --John Loughery, The Washington Post
After Modern Art, in only 245 pages, covers that amazing creative period following the Second World War. Well documented with a good array of illustrations, this book is fun reading. --Gadfly
Finally an affordable, clearly written book on the Contemporary Era. Filled with resources and analysis that students can use. --Steven Michael Vroom, Cornish College of the Arts
An invaluable guide to art of the second half of the twentieth century --Sandy Nairne, Tate Gallery

This excellent work focuses on important movements and issues in the visual arts from WWII to the present....[Hopkins]...succeeds in extending discussion out from American art to provide an international perspective as well as an exceptionally stimulating and cohesive commentary on the 'difficult' art of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Reproductions are good; well-chosen, helpful notes; brief chapter bibliographies; useful time line; list of Web sites. Upper-division undergraduates and up. --Choice
Hopkins is an able guide...creating a self-determined path through some remakrably dense territory but ready to point out the meaningful byways as well. --John Loughery, The Washington Post
After Modern Art, in only 245 pages, covers that amazing creative period following the Second World War. Well documented with a good array of illustrations, this book is fun reading. --Gadfly
Finally an affordable, clearly written book on the Contemporary Era. Filled with resources and analysis that students can use. --Steven Michael Vroom, Cornish College of the Arts
An invaluable guide to art of the second half of the twentieth century --Sandy Nairne, Tate Gallery


This excellent work focuses on important movements and issues in the visual arts from WWII to the present....[Hopkins]...succeeds in extending discussion out from American art to provide an international perspective as well as an exceptionally stimulating and cohesive commentary on the 'difficult' art of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Reproductions are good; well-chosen, helpful notes; brief chapter bibliographies; useful time line; list of Web sites. Upper-division undergraduates and up. --Choice


Hopkins is an able guide...creating a self-determined path through some remakrably dense territory but ready to point out the meaningful byways as well. --John Loughery, The Washington Post


After Modern Art, in only 245 pages, covers that amazing creative period following the Second World War. Well documented with a good array of illustrations, this book is fun reading. --Gadfly


Finally an affordable, clearly written book on the Contemporary Era. Filled with resources and analysis that students can use. --Steven Michael Vroom, Cornish College of the Arts


An invaluable guide to art of the second half of the twentieth century --Sandy Nairne, Tate Gallery


Author Bio

David Hopkins is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St. Andrews. He has published extensively on Dada and Surrealism and related topics in postwar art, with books includeing Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: the Bride Shared (Oxford, 1989) and Marcel Duchamp (London, 1989), co-authored with Dawn Ades and Neil Cox.